MAIN HEADLINES FROM THIS ISSUE:

• Denmark halts defence contracts pending new guidelines

  Denmark’s parliament has rescinded the country’s industrial cooperation regulations as it prepares new guidelines. Without legislation governing industrial cooperation large procurement contracts cannot be signed.

• “Norway will retain its ‘special demands’ for industrial co-operation,” says MoD

  John I. Laugerud, the Deputy Armaments Director at Norway’s MoD, is resolute that Norway will retain its “special demands” for industrial co-operation on procurements concerned with national security…..

• Thailand: A fairy-tale barter brings down a Prime Minister

  Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been forced out of office and faces impeachment by the country’s Senate. She has been indicted for dereliction of duty over her government’s controversial rice subsidy scheme.

• Qatar unimpressed with UAE offset program

  A former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, currently President and Executive Director of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council, wrote in an article for the National Defense Industrial Association that Qatar is not particularly enamoured with the concept of offsets.

• SAAB loses Swiss Gripen deal – fallow IP years beckon for Switzerland

  The Swiss said goodbye to the $3.4bn procurement of 22 Gripen fighter jets as the referendum narrowly rejected the government’s planned procurement. Swissmem, the trade association that administrates offsets for Armasuisse, said the no-vote will deprive the Swiss economy of CHF 2bn of orders.

• SAAB loses Swiss Gripen deal – fallow IP years beckon for Switzerland

  The Swiss said goodbye to the $3.4bn procurement of 22 Gripen fighter jets as the referendum narrowly rejected the government’s planned procurement. Swissmem, the trade association that administrates offsets for Armasuisse, said the no-vote will deprive the Swiss economy of CHF 2bn of orders.