Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Joint meeting Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Committee on Security and Defence

Name: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Joint meeting Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Committee on Security and Defence
Uploaded: 2026-06-25T08:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1248 s

04:48 - 07:40

Speaker 1

Dear colleagues, can I ask you to take your place slowly but surely? Thank you very much. Okay, dear colleagues, good morning and welcome to the joint meeting of SEDE, ENVI and ITRE. The first point is the adoption of the agenda. If there is no objection, the agenda of the meeting can be adopted.

Thank you. As usual, please be informed that today's meeting is webstreamed. Interpretation has been requested in all languages. If there is no comments, we can adopt the minutes of the meeting held on November 17 and on December 15, 2025. I guess there is no problem for this.

Okay. Dear colleagues, I would like to welcome my co-chair from SEDE committee, Ms. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, and my co-chair from ENVI committee, Mr. Pierfrancesco Maran. Thank you. The voting session on the provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiation Defense Omnibus is really important, so please remain concentrated. With the adoption of this Defense Omnibus package, Europe is sending a clear message.

We are speeding up procurement, strengthening our defense industry and creating the condition to bring capabilities to our armed force much faster. Following the informal negotiation on this proposal between the representative of the three institution on June 17, the Council has sent to the three EP co-chair a letter confirming that should the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading in accordance with Article 294 in the exact form of the text set out in the annex to the letter, the Council will adopt the EP's position and the act will be adopted. The Council's letter and the annex have been published on the European Parliament website.

07:40 - 07:56

Speaker 3

Before we proceed with the vote, I will give the floor to the co-rapporteur for one minute each, if they wish so. I will start with SEDE co-rapporteur Sven Mikser. Sven, the floor is yours for one minute, please.

07:56 - 08:33

Speaker 8

Yes, thank you, Chair. I would just like to thank my co-rapporteurs first of all and then all the numerous shadow rapporteurs for a very constructive cooperation. It was a long process, but I think that in the end we achieved a reasonable good compromise that takes into account both the legitimate interests of the government and taxpayers on one hand and then also the companies with regard to the intellectual property rights. So I think it's a good compromise and I hope that it will receive the support from the members of these three committees. Thank you.

08:33 - 08:40

Speaker 3

Thank you. I'll give the floor to the ITRE co-rapporteur Aura Salla for one minute. The floor is yours.

08:40 - 09:09

Speaker 9

Thank you very much. I would also like to thank my co-rapporteurs and everyone who contributed to this file. As a proud NATO reservist from Finland and Finnish Air Force, I want to say that this is a momentum for Europe's capabilities to build up and Europe's defense industry build it up. And Europe needs to stand on our own and this is a great step today for our own defense. Thank you.

09:09 - 09:13

Speaker 2

Thank you. I'll give the floor now to Pierfrancesco Majorino.

09:13 - 09:56

Speaker 7

Yes, I too I would like to thank the other rapporteurs, Mrs. Salla and Mr. Mikser and all the shadow rapporteurs involved in the negotiation. I want also to thank the secretariat and all the technical teams for their constructive cooperation and dedication. I think the final agreement successfully achieve the balance among the defense issue and also the human health and protection and the environment, introducing target measures that will help strengthens Europe's defense capabilities and improve the resilience of our industrial base while preserving the high standard of health protection, environmental safeguard and innovation. Thank you.

09:56 - 10:02

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

You can continue with organizing the vote.

10:02 - 11:32

Pierfrancesco Maran

Yeah, thank you. So now we can start the voting session and proceed to the vote on the provisional agreement resulting from the interinstitutional negotiation on a proposal regarding defense readiness and facilitating defense investment and condition for defense industry. We have any substitute or no? So the vote will be a roll call vote. So we make a test vote now.

I open the test vote. Yes, okay, green if you think Italy will win World Cup, otherwise red. I hope the World Cup will end soon and we will go back talking about badminton and much interesting sports. I close the vote. Okay, it was not a key vote anyway.

So now we have the final, the real, the official vote. So we open the, the vote will take place with a roll call vote. We open the vote. I close the vote. And it's adopted, 119 in favor, 11 against, one abstains.

11:32 - 11:49

Yvan Verougstraete

Congratulations to the other rapporteur and thank you Pierfrancesco. I will now give the floor to the SEDE chair, Mr. Zimmermann, for her concluding remarks. Marie-Agnes, the floor is yours.

11:49 - 13:15

Okay, colleagues, just give me one minute. Please, please, just one minute. I think it's very important what we are talking about. So, I warmly welcome the outcome of today's vote and the clear majority in support of this important file. Today's vote is the third and final one organized in the context of the omnibus package.

With this, we are taking an important step towards ensuring that Europe is better prepared to address current and future security challenges. I would like to thank the rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs, and all colleagues from SEDE, ENVI, and ITRE for the constructive cooperation throughout this progress. Together we have delivered a strong contribution to building a more resilient, prepared, and secure Europe. But I tell you the truth, it's only the beginning. We need not only the Commission and us as MEPs, we need really the competition and and the really the the nations.

So your job is, tell your tell your nations, tell your governments they have to do more. At the end, they have to do more. So thank you all for your work and commitment. And now we have any other business? No, I don't think so.

Thank you very much.

13:15 - 16:06

So we will I think we will continue later, yeah. I propose if there is no any other business, I propose we take two minutes to let the people the colleagues from the ENVI committee to leave the room and and so without disturbing the rest of the discussion. And please, colleagues from SEDE and ITRE, please at your seat, we will start in two minutes the second vote of the day. Dear colleagues, please take your seats. There are still many people standing up.

If you want, take a seat, please. Dear colleagues, welcome to this joint meeting SEDE and ITRE. The first point of the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. If there is no objection, the agenda of the meeting is adopted. As usual, I have to remind you that today's meeting is webstreamed.

Interpretation has been requested in all languages. We will now move to the SEDE-ITRE vote on ASAP. But before proceeding to the vote, thank you, I will briefly pass the floor to the SEDE chair for her remarks. Please, Marie-Agnes, the floor is yours.

16:06 - 16:44

Thank you very much. Dear colleagues, I would like to congratulate the co-rapporteurs, Tonino Picula and Ivan Štefanec, the shadow rapporteurs and the support of all the staff of their fast work in coming to an agreement. The European Parliament has shown it can respond quickly to the urgent need to strengthen the EU defense technological and industrial base, and I hope we will see the same commitment and ambition by the Council in the next phase of program. Now back to you for chairing the vote.

16:44 - 19:16

Yes. So before the vote, we will do a traditional testing vote, and I propose the question for today is: is the airco a key motivation for you to be at the office today? The vote is open. It's okay, close the vote. It's adopted.

Congratulations, we will keep the airco for the next session then. I propose we now go more seriously to the true vote. We will first vote on the amendment 102 that reject the entire proposal. We will proceed by roll-call vote. The vote is open.

Vote is closed. It's rejected. We then go to the vote on the compromise amendment 1 by show of hands. Who is in favor? Against?

Abstention? It's adopted. We go to the final vote by roll-call. The vote is open. Vote is closed.

It's adopted. Then we will vote on the mandate to enter into inter-institutional negotiation, Rule 72. The vote is open. Vote is closed. It's adopted.

Congratulations to the rapporteur, Mr. Picula and Mr. Štefanec. The file will be announced in the plenary on Monday, 6th of July, as we aim to start trilogue negotiation rapidly to enable the negotiation to enter into force by the end of the year. Thank you very much.