Det er klart, at man i betænkningen søger at sikre Kommissionens rolle, når det gælder indkøbene til forsvaret, og ønsker, at sådanne anliggender skal behandles under EU snarere end via national lovgivning.
We should welcome the fact that there was an EU-agreed common position in advance of the NPT review conference and take up the mantle of issues, where we, as the EU, should take a lead, such as withdrawal from the Treaty, the universalisation of rigorous safeguard standards through the IAEA additional protocol, and also the question of the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technologies.