Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting

Name: Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-04-14T15:03:28+00:00

00:04 - 00:40

Speaker 3

So, dear colleagues, please take your seats. Please take your seat. We are now proceeding to the votes, and we will start with a vote on the SED opinion on the commission's proposal establishing the European Competition Fund, including the specific program for defense research and innovation activities. This will be an electronic vote, so please have your voting cards ready. And before proceeding to the vote, I would like to briefly give the floor to the rapporteur, Ritteras, for one minute.

00:40 - 00:41

Rivo, the floor is yours.

00:42 - 01:06

Speaker 1

Thank you very much. I was not expecting that. But I just want to thank all the shadows for very good work. We had a very good cooperation in the very tight schedule. Especially, I want to thank the technical staff and the technical work done in the very short period of time.

I think we have worked out a good compromise, and I hope everybody will be able to support this compromise. Thank you.

01:08 - 01:21

Speaker 3

Thank you very much. I can see we have clearly, do we have? Clearly, yes. We have clearly enough members to meet the quorum for a vote. So before we proceed, we need to check if the voting system is working correctly.

01:21 - 01:39

Speaker 12

So please insert your voting cards, and we will now test the vote. So the vote is open. And two, yeah. But it must be faster. Yeah.

01:39 - 01:42

Speaker 2

Okay. The vote is closed. And.

01:42 - 01:43

Twenty-five or

01:43 - 02:30

Speaker 3

14 Yeah. Something. Okay. Okay. So we will come now to the draft opinion proposal for regulation to the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the European Competition Fund, including the specific program for defense research and innovation activities.

So the Amendment one, by hand, who is in favor? Against abstention adopted. So we continue with the Amendment 205 also by hand. Who is in favor? Against.

02:31 - 03:03

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

Abstention rejected. So now we come to the final vote by local call vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed, and it's adopted. Congratulations.

Oh, sorry. The result. Sorry.

03:03 - 03:04

It was not on the screen.

03:04 - 03:14

No. Is there no, is there no sorry?

Didn't appear on the screen. We can read it from the machine. 20. It's nine in favor.

So it was 29 in favor.

03:14 - 03:14

Six against.

03:15 - 04:20

Six against. And two abstentions. And two abstentions. Sorry. I thought okay.

It should have appeared. Okay. So now, just a minute. So we continue with the draft opinion connecting the European facility for the period 2028 till 2034. And let me see.

Do we have it immediately, we go to the vote. Yes. And Pedras, you the floor is yours for one minute.

04:21 - 04:41

Petras Auštrevičius

Thank you, chair. I do thank you all, colleagues with whom we work closely in finding lasting and good compromise. I invite all of you to vote because it's about connecting, and politicians and citizens have to be connected, for the good sake of this word. Thank you.

04:43 - 06:12

Thank you very much, Peter. So now we are coming to the first amendment, and the vote is by hand. Who is in favor? Against. Abstention adopted.

Then we continue with Amendment 171. It's all the votes are by hand. So, who is in favor? Against? Abstention rejected.

172. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstention rejected. 179, who is in favor?

Who is against? I think we have to check it. 179, the vote is open. The vote is closed. With it's now, it's yes.

Now you can see it. Okay. The right bottom. It helps. Okay.

So we are coming to 108 by hand. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstention rejected. Now we come to the final vote, broken vote, and the vote is open.

And the vote is, yeah. Okay. Closed. And it's adopted. Yes.

06:13 - 06:15

It's adopted. Okay. Thank you very much.

06:18 - 06:50

So now we have 20 minutes. Well, if the expert is here, we can start earlier, but otherwise.

So, yeah. This is Zifragen. Congratulations. So, first of all, congratulations. And the question will be, normally, we continue at 05:30.

The question is if the Itra is already here, the experts. No, not yet. Okay. Then, sorry about it. And we have a fifteen minutes break.