PARIS (Reuters) - Britain and France are negotiating about how much Paris should pay to access design work on the Royal Navy's large carrier programme, as part of an attempt to pool knowledge and save costs, U.S. magazine Defence News reported.
Defence News, in its edition that will appear on Monday, cited defence executives from both countries.
France is building an aircraft carrier with French shipbuilder DCN and defence electronics company Thales, while Britain is working on two such ships with Thales and Europe's biggest defence group BAe Systems.
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie at her January 24 meeting with British counterpart John Reid will press for a deal on the price, which includes looking at a detailed design of Britain's CVF carrier programme and funding for common studies of France's planned PA2 carrier, the magazine said.
The French industry needs access to the design data to assess potential savings in a co-operative programme. It also needs to know the cost to adapt the CVF design to French Navy needs, it said.
A French defence official told Defence News the talks over "economic conditions" for co-operation "are difficult" and that each side would bring in its know-how but that there was a lack of agreement on the valuation of that knowledge.
France was offering half of the more than 100 million pounds ($175.8 million) the British were asking, the weekly said.
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