Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting

Name: Committee on Security and Defence Ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-06-03T08:15:00+00:00
Duration: 3176 s

03:51 - 05:13

Speaker 1

So, colleagues, welcome. The first point is the adoption of the agenda. If there are no amendments, the agenda of the meeting can be adopted. So, now we will continue immediately. Sorry.

I would like to inform you that in line with rule 220 of Parliament's rule of procedure, the records of decision of the SEDE coordinators' meeting of 20th April 2026 by written procedure and of 7th May have been uploaded on the SEDE intranet and will be attached to the minutes of this meeting.

Now I submit for approval the minutes of the meeting held on the 14th and 15th April 2026. Do you have any comments? If there are no comments, the minutes are deemed approved. So, dear colleagues, we now proceeding to the vote on the SEDE opinion to the Commission's proposal related to the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response. This will be an electronic vote, so please have your voting cards ready.

Are you ready? Yeah, wonderful. Before proceeding to the vote, I would like to briefly give the floor to rapporteur Reiniss Poznak for one minute. Reiniss, the floor is yours.

05:13 - 06:06

Speaker 2

Thank you, Chair. First of all, of course, I would like to thank the SEDE secretariat and all the staff from all the political groups and, of course, shadow rapporteurs for very smooth, constructive and productive work, because what we are voting today is not just a technical update of Civil Protection Mechanism, but a fundamental shift in how Europe understands security, preparedness and resilience, because the reality we face today is profoundly different from the one this mechanism was originally designed for. Crises are no longer isolated events, they are interconnected, cross-border and increasingly driven by hybrid threats, combining cyberattacks, disinformation, sabotage and the deliberate targeting of critical infrastructure.

This is exactly why this report matters and I kindly ask you support it. Thank you.

06:06 - 07:34

Speaker 1

Thank you very much, Rainis. I can see that we have clearly enough members to meet the quorum for a vote. And before we proceed, we need to check if the voting system is working correctly.

Please insert your voting cards and we will now have a test vote on a very, very random question: do you like pineapple on your pizza? So, the vote is open. Okay, the vote is closed. Yes, and the most people don't like it. Me too.

So, colleagues... Yeah, it's really a random question. So, colleagues, now we are coming to the draft opinion on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response and repealing decisions number 1313/2013/EU. So now we're coming to the first amendment by hand.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstention adopted.

07:34 - 08:01

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

So we are coming to the final vote by roll call vote. The vote is open. The vote is closed. And it's clear adopted. Thank you very much.

08:01 - 08:08

Speaker 3

So wonderful. I think it is. Okay. Nobody has complained. These screens are just awful because...

08:55 - 52:55

Speaker 4

Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to this meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. And I would like to welcome our guests, our speakers, and our colleagues. The first item on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. The agenda is adopted.

The second item is the Chair's announcements. I have no announcements to make. The third item is the approval of the minutes of the meeting of the 22nd and 23rd of May 2023. The minutes are approved. The fourth item is the public hearing on the EU's support to Ukraine, the European Peace Facility, and the impact of the Act in Support of Ammunition Production.

I would like to welcome our speakers. We have with us today Mr. Cosmin Dobran, Director for Peace, Partnerships and Crisis Management at the European External Action Service. We have Mr. Jean-Pierre van Aubel, Strategic Planner at the European External Action Service. And we have Mr. François Arbault, Director for Defence Industry at the European Commission. I would like to thank you for being here today.

As you know, the EU has been providing significant support to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian aggression. This support has been provided through various instruments, including the European Peace Facility and the Act in Support of Ammunition Production. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss the implementation of these instruments and their impact on the ground. We will start with the presentations from our speakers, and then we will have a Q&A session. Mr. Dobran, you have the floor.

Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to this SEDE meeting. I would like to start by asking you to adopt the agenda. The agenda is adopted. I would like to inform you that the meeting is being webstreamed and that the SEDE meeting application is available on your tablets.

I would like to welcome our guest, the High Representative and Vice-President of the Commission, Josep Borrell. Thank you very much for being with us today. We are very happy to have you here. We are going to discuss the Strategic Compass and the implementation of the Strategic Compass. As you know, the Strategic Compass was adopted by the Council in March 2022.

It is a very important document for the European Union. It is the first time that the European Union has a common strategic vision for its security and defence. The Strategic Compass is a very ambitious document. It sets out a clear path for the European Union to become a more effective and more capable security and defence actor. It also sets out a clear path for the European Union to strengthen its partnerships with its allies and partners.