AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe

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Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe
AbbreviationASD
Formation2004
Merger ofAssociation of European Space Industry (EUROSPACE), European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA) and European Defence Industries Group (EDIG)
Type Trade association
HeadquartersRue du Trône 100, 1050 Brussels
Fields Aerospace, defence and security
Membership3,000 companies
Key people
Alessandro Profumo (President)
Jan Pie (Secretary General)
Website asd-europe.org

The Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) is a trade association for the aerospace, defence and security industries in Europe. According to the organisation, it represents over 3,000 companies in 17 countries.

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History

The organisation was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Association of European Space Industry (Eurospace), European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA) and European Defence Industries Group (EDIG). [1] [2]

Activities

The organisation serves as a lobbying group and policy advocate for the industry within the European Union establishment, [3] in particular the European Defence Agency, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, as well as the European Union Agency for the Space Programme. [4] It convinced the European Commission to consider most of the activities of the defence industry as sustainable according to the environmental, social, and governance criteria in the 2019 Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. [5]

The organisation is responsible for maintaining the ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) standards for aerospace technical documentation.

References

  1. ↑ "Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe". Global Civil Society Database. Union of International Associations. 2020. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  2. ↑ Andersson, Jan Joel (2013). Biscop, Sven; Whitman, Richard G. (eds.). The Routledge handbook of European security. London: Routledge. p. 108. ISBN   978-0-415-58828-7. OCLC   780063865.
  3. ↑ Jones, Chris (2017-08-25). Market Forces: The development of the EU Security-Industrial Complex (Report). The Transnational Institute.
  4. ↑ Oikonomou, Iraklis (2012-05-01). "The European Defence Agency and EU military space policy: Whose space odyssey?" . Space Policy. Special Issue on New Horizons for Europe: A European Studies Perspective on European Space Policy. 28 (2): 102–109. Bibcode:2012SpPol..28..102O. doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2012.02.008. ISSN   0265-9646.
  5. ↑ Grasso, Daniele; Michalopoulos, Giorgio (17 December 2025). "22 millones de euros de fondos "verdes" en empresas de armas israelíes: la guerra como inversión sostenible" [22 milion euros fo "green" funds in Israeli arms companies: war as a sustainable investment]. El País (in European Spanish). Retrieved 17 December 2025. En una nota interna, sugirió que la Comisión y las autoridades europeas pertinentes emitieran directrices para aclarar que los gestores de activos no deben revelar los impactos negativos de las inversiones en empresas europeas de defensa a menos que participen en las cuatro categorías de armas controvertidas ya mencionadas.
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