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… defence-market-flemish-peace-institute, (last visited on June 3rd, 2012), p.4. 2 'Safeguarding the free movement of goods', Enterprise & Industry Online Magazine, January 2011, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/magazine/articles/single-market/article_10863_en.htm (last visited on June 3rd, 2012). … 15 Furthermore, fragmentation of markets implies additional administrative costs for defence companies, which need special licenses for the transfer of defence equipment in other EU Member States, while governments on the other hand cannot pay the best price for the equipment procured. 16 Moreover, national defence in today's rather globalized and complex security situation is facing various challenges, such as threats from international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass … 9 involved. 44 A further interesting feature of the Defence Procurement Directive is that it does not regulate offsets. Offsets are additions that are usually provided above and over the delivery of the specific product when importing defence equipment. Offsets may have a serious effect on market competition, as the importer may well base the decision (partly) on the attractiveness of the offset package, rather than the defence equipment itself. The European …