EDIP eligibility, including the Ukraine Support Instrument (Articles 9 and 26)
Who may receive EDIP funding. The Programme and the Ukraine Support Instrument have different rules about where the company must be established.
At a glance
- Kind
- Eligibility rule (assessed, not obtained)
- Needed for
- EDIP and the Ukraine Support Instrument.
- Legal basis
- Regulation (EU) 2025/2643, Article 9 (Programme) and Article 26 (Ukraine Support Instrument)
- Last reviewed
- Verification
- Verified: the page was fetched and the fact is in it.
What the rules say
This is a set of rules that the applicant declares and the Commission assesses, not a document to obtain. The work programmes of the Commission set the conditions of each call. The rules are listed below, each with the text of the regulation.
Which programmes ask for it
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP): the Programme: Established in the Union or an associated country (Required)Your company is established outside the EU and the EEA EFTA states. Under the EDIP Programme, recipients must be established in the Union or in an associated country. Ukraine is not an associated country of the Programme; Ukrainian companies are covered by the Ukraine Support Instrument, which has its own card.
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP): the Programme: Executive management in the Union or an associated country (Required)Your executive management structures are outside the EU and the EEA EFTA states. Under the EDIP Programme they must be in the Union or in an associated country.
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP): the Programme: Not controlled by a non-associated third country (Required)Your company is controlled from a non-associated third country.
- EDIP: Ukraine Support Instrument: Established in the Union or in Ukraine (Required)Your company is established outside the EU and Ukraine. Under the Ukraine Support Instrument, recipients must be established in the Union or in Ukraine. EEA EFTA states are not named in this Article.
- EDIP: Ukraine Support Instrument: Executive management in the Union or in Ukraine (Required)Your executive management structures are outside the EU and Ukraine. Under the Ukraine Support Instrument they must be in the Union or in Ukraine.
- EDIP: Ukraine Support Instrument: Not established in a non-government controlled area of Ukraine (Required)Legal entities established in the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine are not eligible.
- EDIP: Ukraine Support Instrument: Not controlled by a non-associated third country other than Ukraine (Required)Your company is controlled from a non-associated third country. The exception for guarantees applies only to a legal entity established in the Union, so a company established in Ukraine cannot rely on it.
Questions
- Who needs EDIP eligibility, including the Ukraine Support Instrument (Articles 9 and 26)?
- EDIP and the Ukraine Support Instrument.
Source
Regulation (EU) 2025/2643, Articles 9 and 26 · Open the source
[Regulation (EU) 2025/2643, Article 9(1)] Only legal entities established in the Union or in an associated country and having their executive management structures in the Union or in an associated country shall be eligible to be recipients of Union funding under this Regulation.
Quoted from the Official Journal text of the regulation. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.