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In July 2023, the European Union (EU) adopted the so-called Act in support of ammunition production with a view, as it was stated, to ramp up defence industry production capacities to support Ukraine in the armed conflict against Russia. That is but one element of the broad EU response to the conflict in Ukraine, and a rare measure of supranational character in this area, given that this is the first time that EU funds are used to finance the production and procurement of ammunition. The focus of this paper is placed on a free interpretation to which it was resorted when adopting one such measure in the legal context characterised by treaty prohibition to disburse expenses from operations having military or defence implications from the EU budget. Because of the said structural limitation, industry and common market legal basis were used, while the field of common security and defence policy was avoided, where, by the nature of things, this matter belongs. Although the real range of this measure is limited, its significance is symbolical since it can be interpreted as a slight shift towards defence integration of the EU. At the same time, it represents the EU stepping into the military-industrial complex. In theoretical sense, this move is an indicator of a bellicist character of further building of European integration