companies are registered-; ownership of the product or service offered as a Spanish Company; and a minimum turnover in the defence sector. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION The publication of the catalogue is the result of close collaboration between the Deputy General Directorates of International Relations (REIN), Inspection, Regulation and Defence Industrial Strategy (INREID) and Publications, as well as with the companies in the sector, highly committed to the publication of this catalogue. It is, therefore, an official publication of the Ministry of Defence as it endorses the data provided by the companies and forms part of the Ministry’s publishing programme. The document includes, listed by sector/subsector, a data sheet for each company including general data, a brief description of its activity and a selection of its more representative products or capabilities for export. It also offers an alphabetical listing of the companies and a directory of Defence attachés and their contact details. The 2019-2020 edition has been widely distributed amongst the various interested parties: the Ministries of Defence, Presidency, Relations with the Parliament and Equality, Interior, Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism and Economy and Enterprise; the Defence Staff, the General Headquarters of the Army, Air Force and Navy; Spanish defence attachés and advisors; Foreign defence attachés; Global Spain; Associations such as TEDAE and AESMIDE and Fundación Círculo (Foundation for Defence and Security technologies), and the participating companies. The catalogue has been published in Spanish and English, in both print and digital format, and may be freely read and downloaded at https://publicaciones. defensa.gob.es/catalogue-spanish-defence industry-2019-2026.html. industry and technology Spanish defence industry 2019-2020 Publication of the third official catalogue for the knowledge and promotion of the capabilities of Spanish companies in the international environment TO coincide with the holding in Madrid of the first International Defence and Security Exhibition (FEINDEF), the Ministry of Defence has published the Spanish Defence Industry Catalogue 2019-2020. The publication opens with a presentation by the State Secretary for Defence, Ángel Olivares (SEDEF). «In recent years», he said, «our industry has shown that it is capable of coming up with efficient and innovative solutions to meet the various and ever-changing challenges that we and our allies are facing in this globalised world». Published every two years since 2016, the aim of this catalogue since its first edition has been «to provide a basic tool to disseminate and promote the capabilities of our defence industry on an international level», according to the General Director for Armament and Materiel (DIGAM), Admiral Santiago Ramón González. In particular, one of the tasks of this General Directorate is the promotion of institutional support to the internationalisation of the Spanish defence industry by supporting its export endeavours. The catalogue has become a calling card to showcase this commitment, as publications of this kind are not frequent in neighbouring countries. Focusing on Europe, and more specifically on the various international programmes in force, the catalogue provides European companies with the information necessary to find partners with which to carry out feasible industrial cooperation projects. All the companies in this new directory meet at least three requirements as follows: registration in the DGAM’s Companies Registry –a total of 528 July/August 2019 Revista Española de Defensa 31
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