EADS confirms that it remains fully committed to the construction of the A400M that will be the most complete high performance military plane for the coming decades. The group reaffirms that the contract signed in 2003 does not provide the necessary conditions for the successful development of the programme, firstly because of an unrealistic timetable, and secondly because the commercial nature of the contract does not fit to the reality of a military programme containing high technological risks.
EADS wishes that the three months moratorium period as proposed by OCCAR be used by all partners of the programme to put it back on tracks within conditions acceptable by all parties.
