Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Extraordinary meeting
22 October 2026
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ITRE European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:05 - 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.