Commission vows to boost EU security industry

August 1st, 2012

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euractiv.com
31 July 2012

Europe’s security industry should harness its response to natural disasters and terrorist attacks to boost its profile as an international industry, according to a new Commission action plan released yesterday (30 July).

The plan envisages a stronger internal market for the security industry harmonising standards and certification procedures for security technologies, and better exploiting the links between civil and defence security research.

New funding schemes are proposed including a ‘pre-commercial procurement’ to validate results stemming from EU security research projects and check on the impact to society of new security technologies at the research stage.

EU-branded security

The EU executive claims the industry is one of the sectors with the highest potential for growth and employment in the EU – and wants this to remain in Europe.

“The current fragmented market weakens the competitiveness of Europe’s security industry,” said Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, responsible for enterprise and entrepreneurship, at the launch.

Tajani said that the lack of an ‘EU brand’ is “especially critical as the future key markets for security technologies will not be in Europe but in emerging countries.”

The EU security market has an estimated market value of between €26 billion and €36.5 billion with around 180,000 employees, and covers a broad range of sectors including aviation, maritime, border control, as well as counter-terror intelligence, and the ever-prominent cyber security sector.