Denmark’s new industrial cooperation guidelines retain multipliers and penalty provisions, becoming one of the few EC member states to do so on a formal basis. A new National Defence Industrial Strategy has been issued in relation to the new guidelines.....
Poland’s new offset law has passed through parliament and is expected to be signed into law by President Bronislaw Komorowski. Barring the unforeseen the new offset law will become effective by August.....
The Deutsches Kompensation Forum (DKF) / Wierzbowski Eversheds conference in Warsaw, Poland, was knocked for six on June 30th as two key speakers pulled out, leaving more than a hundred delegates bemused but hardly surprised.
Turkey is preparing to roll out an eccentric, convoluted, yet formal civil offset policy. The Turkish parliament has approved primary legislation to justify civil offsets. Five ministries will include industrial participation requirements in selective tenders from August.
When the Buy American Act (BAA) requires the American administration at national or state level to use local content, does that amount to an offset? “American and foreign contractors are not speaking the same language,” said ECCO Chairman Christian Sylvain.