Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Extraordinary meeting

Name: Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Extraordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-10-22T07:03:24+00:00
Duration: 3425 s

00:05 - 01:14

Speaker 2

Okay, dear colleagues, take your seats, please, and I'm opening the committee meeting. So, first item one, any comments to agenda? No, so the agenda is adopted. I'm informing you that as always we've got webstreaming and the interpretation today is available in 20 languages. Adoption of minutes, I propose to adopt the minutes of 1st and 10th September 2026.

Adopted, thanks a lot. And before we start votes, we've got our two items, item four, establishment of European Business Wallet. It will be reporting back to committee on the negotiations. I give the floor to our rapporteur, but we've got five minutes for this item, so please the floor is yours.

01:14 - 02:32

Speaker 1

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so I will give you the update on the European Business Wallet negotiations situation. As you may remember, ITRE committee voted on the report in the beginning of September and it was supported by a real majority of the committee. The trilogue mandate was confirmed in the October first plenary. On the 14th of October, we had our opening trilogue.

I'm pleased to report that opening trilogue was really constructive and also positive one. As rapporteur, I highlighted three key points in the Parliament's mandate. First, we want the business wallets to be a truly European solution which can also enhance our technological sovereignty. Second, we ask that particular attention is paid to the needs and capacities of smaller municipalities and local authorities when deploying the business wallets in Member States. And thirdly, we hope the wallets will be a success and workable solution that businesses, including SMEs, will actually use.

Timetable is quite demanding. Our aim is to finalize the negotiations by the end of this year. Negotiations will now continue at technical level and our closing trilogue is scheduled for 10th of December.

02:32 - 02:49

Speaker 2

Thank you, Erno, for the, for this brief information. And now this is item five, so the same procedure, and I'm giving the floor to the Chair Penkova also for reporting from negotiations.

02:49 - 03:31

Speaker 4

Perfect, thank you, thank you, Chair. I will, I will also be brief on reporting back from the second trilogue on the revision of the TEN-E regulation which took place on the 13th of October. So, our discussions focus on the, on the future framework for European energy infrastructure planning, including its governance, the development of the scenarios, the transparency and access to the underlying data. I would like to inform the committee that the exchange was constructive and helped clarifying our respective positions and the areas, of course, where some further work would be necessary. There is common ground on several elements, but of course there are a few areas such as the implementation of the framework which still remain open.

03:31 - 04:15

Speaker 3

For Parliament, the priority is to ensure that the revised regulation provides a coherent and credible basis for identifying Europe's infrastructure needs and supporting the investments required. So we continue to underline the importance of transparent planning, effective scrutiny, and the involvement of the relevant stakeholders in the process. Our overall objective remains to facilitate the timely development of the infrastructure that strengthens Europe's energy security, supports decarbonization, and contributes to affordable energy for households and industry. We will now continue on the technical level the discussions and the next trilogue is scheduled for the 10th of November aiming to finalize everything by the end of the year. Thank you.

04:15 - 05:24

Speaker 2

Thank you, Chair. And now we will have votes. So first, I will, I just want to check if everything is okay. So it will be the test vote, so it doesn't matter which button you will press, but please use your cards. And this is 10 seconds just for check if everything is okay.

So I open the test vote. I close the vote. 82, everything works. So we start item 6 and amending regulation as regards CO2 emission performance standards for new light-duty vehicles and vehicles labeling and repealing Directive 1999/94/EC. So first, I will give the floor for three minutes to the rapporteur, Mr. Matej Tonin, and then we will have the vote.

05:24 - 05:27

Borys Budka

So the floor is yours.

05:27 - 06:23

Matej Tonin

Thank you very much, Chair. Dear colleagues, you know, this is the matter of automotive industry and future is in our hands. In the beginning of this term, we promised that we will remove the ban on combustion engines after 2035. And with today's vote, we are in a way delivering this. So I would be very, I'm very grateful to all shadow rapporteurs, to all colleagues who participated in this long and very complicated negotiations and of course a big thank to coordinators who were negotiating the last part of our journey.

So thank you very much and I hope that after this vote, the future of automotive industry will be in a better shape.

06:23 - 06:33

Borys Budka

Thank, thank you, Matej. Thanks all the shadows for your work. And yes, Andrej.

06:33 - 06:51

Ondřej Krutílek

Thank you, Chair. On behalf of ECR and PfE, I would like to ask for a secret ballot on compromise amendment 1 tabled by EPP, S&D and Renew in accordance with Rule 198, paragraph 2. Thank you.

06:51 - 07:17

Borys Budka

Yes, okay, according to the rules, if we've got support for this at least 18 members, it will be the secret vote. As I remember, the Patriots and ECR have together 21 members or 22. Sorry for this. So it will be the secret ballot, but just for the, but for just for the amendment, the compromise amendment, yes? You asked for this.

07:17 - 07:18

Yes, that's right.

07:18 - 09:28

Borys Budka

Okay, thank you. So first, we will vote for the rejection and it will be the roll-call vote. So I open the vote.

I close the vote. And it is rejected. So rejection is rejected. So we will be now vote for the compromise amendment one and as you asked it will be the secret vote. So I open the vote.

Too many EPP. Too many EPP. Okay so they need to take out two people. Oh it's okay. I close the vote.

And it is adopted. Forty-nine. Yeah you've got the result. So it is adopted. So we will have the final vote also but it will be the roll call vote.

So I open the final vote. The same situation. Too many from EPP. One okay. Perfect.

I close the vote. And it is adopted. Thanks a lot but wait we have another vote. Thanks for the item six and now we've got item seven adoption of draft opinion and the same procedure. I will give the floor to the chair Giorgio Gori for three minutes.

09:28 - 11:04

Giorgio Gori

Thank you chair. Il mercato automobilistico europeo attraversa un momento molto complicato ed è responsabilità di questo Parlamento fornirgli gli strumenti per poter resistere ad una concorrenza molto aggressiva, sviluppare le proprie innovazioni e preservare i posti di lavoro. Il compromesso che è stato raggiunto, di cui voglio ringraziare tutte le persone che si sono impegnate per questo risultato, conferma una linea di indirizzo di questa di questo Parlamento che è volto a promuovere un'innovazione nel segno della sostenibilità del settore della mobilità privata, confermando la priorità del del vettore elettrico pur introducendo elementi di flessibilità. È importante anche aver introdotto elementi di linea di mercato guida per il settore dell'acciaio verde e così sottolineiamo l'importanza di aver introdotto questa nuova categoria di auto piccole elettriche che aprono il mercato dell'auto elettrica a fasce di popolazione che fino ad oggi non hanno avuto accesso a quella a quel prodotto. Riteniamo quindi questo compromesso molto positivo ed è un piccolo pezzo, come sapete, di una negoziazione più estesa.

Oggi abbiamo in discussione l'Omnibus ma verranno presto anche le altre gli altri dossier che riguardano il pacchetto automotive. Grazie di nuovo a tutti coloro che hanno lavorato.

11:04 - 11:51

Borys Budka

Grazie Giorgio. Grazie a te. Grazie tutti. Avete fatto un grande lavoro e adesso cominciamo. So we will we will have the first the vote by show of hands.

It will be the compromise amendment. So I'm asking who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? So it is adopted.

And now it will be the final vote by roll call vote. So I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Thank you.

No other businesses so the next ITRE committee meeting will take place 10 of November.