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1. The Instrument shall be implemented through a multiannual work programme pursuant to Article 110 of the Financial Regulation (the ‘work programme’).

2. The Commission shall, by means of an implementing act, adopt the work programme. The implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16(3).

3. The work programme shall set out:

(a) the minimum financial size of the joint procurement actions;

(b) the indicative amount of financial support for actions carried out by the minimum number of Member States as required by Article 8(1), point (c);

(c) incentives for procurement of a higher value and the inclusion of additional Member States or associated countries in an existing cooperation;

(d) the overall amount of the Union contribution to each funding priority;

(e) a description of actions involving cooperation for common procurement;

(f) the estimated value of common procurement;

(g) the procedure for the evaluation and selection of proposals;

(h) a description of the milestones, which are to be designed in such a way as to mark substantial progress in the implementation of actions, the results to be achieved and the associated amounts that are to be disbursed;

(i) arrangements for the verification of the milestones referred to in point (h), the fulfilment of conditions and the achievement of results; and (j) the methods for determining and, where applicable, adjusting the funding amounts.

4. The work programme shall set out funding priorities in line with the needs referred to in Article 3(2). Those funding priorities shall aim to ensure the availability of sufficient quantities of the most urgent and critical defence products to fill the most urgent capability gaps, as referred to in Section 4 of the joint communication on ‘the Defence Investment Gaps Analysis and Way Forward’.