The European Commission has selected the offer for the European Patrol Corvette project presented on November 22nd by the consortium of industries formed by the Navalmeccanica company Spanish Navantia and the Italian Fincantieri and French Naval Group together with Naviris, a joint venture between Fincantieri and Naval Group, and Greece's Hydrus as part of the Fund's second call European Defence Fund for a maximum budget of €154.5 million euro. The contract will be negotiated with OCCAR-EA on behalf of OCCAR-EA of the European Commission.

On 24 October, contracts were signed for the first "Modular and Multirole Patrol Corvette" (MMPC) call, while this new phase will be aimed at the completion of the of the initial and detailed design and the development and integration of innovative technological elements thanks to which the ships will be able to equip themselves with various systems and payloads useful for carrying out a Wide range of assignments and missions. This will allow the production of the first two prototypes: a Long Range Mission version (LRM) and a Full Combat Mission (FCM) version, which will be the future fleets of the nations' technologically advanced corvettes, with the ultimate goal of expanding the level of communality, interoperability and standardization between the navies of the different EU countries.

The second MMPC call therefore aims to strengthen the five key elements for European autonomy: economy, defence, technology, industry and safety, consolidating the skills and joint development of advanced technologies between European industry, reducing the Union's dependence on external entities in the production of components, securing and establishing a new chain transnational supply within the EU, with the objective of limiting the unit cost and presenting the corvette as an attractive product also for the foreign market in competition with non-European shipyards.