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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
The UK Ministry of Defence announced the Atlantic Bastion programme on 8 December 2025, establishing a hybrid naval force to defend UK and NATO subsea cable and pipeline infrastructure against Russian submarine threats. The programme integrates ships, submarines, aircraft, and autonomous uncrewed vessels through AI-powered acoustic detection and a digital targeting web, with £14 million in combined MOD/industry seedcorn investment already committed, 26 UK and European firms submitting anti-submarine sensor proposals, and capabilities due to be deployed in 2026. Atlantic Bastion implements the Strategic Defence Review 2025 undersea-warfare commitments and is coordinated through the Undersea Infrastructure Security (UIS) Oversight Board chaired by the Cabinet Office.
The European Commission's Fourth CEF-Digital Call selection decision (Commission Implementing Decision C(2025)7293, adopted 3 November 2025) awarded EUR 20,000,000 to "East Aegean Network" (EAN), a project coordinated by Wings ICT Solutions Technologies AE (Greece) under the CEF Digital Gateways strand, for the protection and digital supervision of critical subsea cable infrastructure serving the Aegean islands. The award is the largest of four CEF Digital grants Wings secured in the same call round, and sits alongside the EU's other 2025 subsea-cable resilience grants (e.g. PISCES Phase 3, MEDUSA AFRICA 2) funded from the same EUR 389 million package.
The European Commission granted EUR 18.9 million (USD ~21.8 million) to McMahon Design and Management Limited (MDM), an Irish subsea-cable developer, for the third phase of the "PISCES" submarine cable system under the EU's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital programme. PISCES is a ~2,100km+ subsea fibre system linking Ireland's west coast to Portugal, Spain and France, intended to diversify Ireland's digital connectivity away from its current near-total dependence on cables landing in the UK and France. The award was announced/implemented 3 November 2025.
Greece enacted Law 5202/2025 on 22 May 2025, published in Government Gazette ΦΕΚ A' 84 on 23 May 2025 and effective the same day, establishing the country's first national mandatory and suspensory foreign direct investment screening mechanism, aligned with Regulation (EU) 2019/452. The Interministerial Committee for the Control of Foreign Direct Investment (ICC-FDI), with initial procedure run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reviews non-EU acquisitions in "sensitive" sectors (energy, transportation, healthcare, ICT, digital infrastructure) and "particularly sensitive" sectors (national security, defence, cybersecurity, AI, ports and critical subsea infrastructure, borderland tourism). A two-phase review applies — 30 days Phase I, up to 150 days Phase II with EU Cooperation Mechanism notification — and the regime became fully operational on 11 November 2025.
Joint Communication JOIN(2025) 9 final, adopted 21 February 2025, establishes the EU's first cable-infrastructure-specific resilience framework. It introduces a four-pillar Cable Security Toolbox (prevention, detection, response/recovery, deterrence), designates Cable Projects of European Interest (CPEIs) for priority public funding, and allocates €347 million under the Connecting Europe Facility Digital programme for cross-border subsea cable diversification, redundancy, and repair-ship capacity. The plan also formalises EU-NATO Task Force on Resilience of Critical Undersea Infrastructure follow-on workstreams and establishes an attribution and diplomatic-response framework for cable-sabotage incidents, referencing Baltic Sea cable-cutting events from 2023 to 2025.
Commission Recommendation (EU) 2024/779 of 26 February 2024, published in the Official Journal on 8 March 2024, establishes the EU's first dedicated policy framework for the security and resilience of submarine cable infrastructure. It creates an informal Submarine Cable Infrastructure Expert Group of Member State authorities chaired by the Commission with ENISA participation, introduces the Cable Projects of European Interest (CPEI) designation mechanism for priority Union funding, and mandates a consolidated Union-wide risk and vulnerability assessment culminating in a Cable Security Toolbox of mitigating measures. Scope covers cables, landing stations, terrestrial tail connections, repair centres, and cable-laying vessel capacity. The recommendation is non-binding under TFEU Article 292 but constitutes the foundational soft-law framework that the later 2025 Cable Security Action Plan (JOIN(2025) 9) operationalises with binding CPEI lists and €347M CEF Digital funding.