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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Ordinary meeting

10 November 2026

Contents updated on 10 Nov 2026

The committee opens with the Commission presenting the data-centre delegated act and its label under the Energy Efficiency Directive, followed by a first round of MEP questions and Commission replies on waste-heat use, technology neutrality, climate impacts, sovereignty concerns and enforcement, with subsequent follow-up Q&A on low-emission sources, greenwashing risks, benchmarks and the path towards binding EU-wide minimum performance standards and transparency rules.

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Data-centre delegated act — context and first MEP–Commission exchange

00:06

Opening of ITRE meeting and data-centre delegated act context

00:06

Opening of ITRE meeting and agenda adoption

00:06

Commission — context: data centres, AI and energy challenges

03:06

Commission — CADA, roadmap and tripartite agreements

06:24

Commission — database, rating label and sustainability metrics

08:09

First MEP round — questions on data-centre label, sovereignty and environmental impacts

11:42

EPP — Salla: EU data sovereignty and label design

11:42

S&D — Fuglsang: waste heat and flexibility in the label

14:22

ECR — Solier: data centre types, geography and coherence with CADA

17:08

Renew — Grudler: nuclear recognition and additionality rules

20:16

Greens/EFA — Paulus: reporting gaps, nuclear and waste-heat location

22:52

The Left — Clausen: environmental impacts and call for limits

25:08

Commission replies — waste heat, technology neutrality and enforcement of the data-centre label

27:20

Commission — first replies on waste heat and neutrality of the label

27:20

Commission — label design and energy-efficiency basis

29:30

Commission — location, climate factors and enforcement

32:33

Follow-up Q&A — low-emission sources, greenwashing risks and data-centre benchmarks

35:42

Follow-up round set-up; Salla — low-emission sources and legal status

35:42

Solier, Fuglsang, Paulus — low-carbon mix, green label risks, benchmarks

37:36

Clausen — mandatory waste-heat reuse and moratorium debate

41:58

Commission — location choices, data-centre types and energy sourcing metric

43:09

Second follow-up — sovereignty, transparency and path towards minimum performance standards

46:34

Casares and Kulmuni — sovereignty, transparency and Article 5(5)

46:34

Eriksson and Scuderi — cost responsibility, secrecy and need for firm limits

50:34

Commission — minimum performance standards and data publication regime

53:29

ITRE committee other items — missions, CRMA trilogue and BEREC/Digital Networks Act

56:56

Committee reports — missions to India, ACER, ENISA and CRMA trilogue

56:56

Stancanelli — ITRE mission to India: energy, industry and CBAM

56:56

EU–India mission — industrial cooperation and AI approach

59:32

GONZÁLEZ CASARES — India mission, CBAM and carbon markets

01:01:27

Mission to ACER (Ljubljana) — energy market integration and REMIT 2

01:03:11

Mission to ENISA (Athens) — cybersecurity mandate and AI-related threats

01:06:45

Critical Raw Materials Act revision — trilogue state of play

01:10:45

Exchange with BEREC — mandate, 2027 work programme and Digital Networks Act

01:14:11

Introduction of annual exchange with BEREC leadership

01:14:11

BEREC and BEREC Office — roles in the digital single market

01:15:48

BEREC work programme 2027 — DNA, digital omnibus, roaming and cybersecurity

01:18:30

BEREC 2027 focus — satellites, single market and end‑user rights

01:23:29

Digital Networks Act — BEREC assessment of single market and enforcement

01:26:54

BEREC chair — key principles for DNA reform

01:29:01

BEREC Office Director — budget shortfalls and DNA financial statement

01:30:04

MEP questions to BEREC — DNA governance, numbering, satellite services and sovereignty

01:33:33

EPP (Del Castillo) — DNA governance and EU numbering plan

01:33:33

S&D (Ecke) — market evolution, satellite connectivity and sovereignty

01:36:37

EPP (Niebler) — Space Act, connectivity and European sovereignty

01:39:22

BEREC and Commission responses — DNA model, satellite competition, high-risk vendors and closure

01:41:19

BEREC response — DNA governance model and numbering regime

01:41:19

BEREC response — copper switch‑off, state aid and satellite competition

01:45:16

Follow‑up — Made in Europe, high‑risk vendors and cybersecurity linkage

01:49:36

European Commission — support for strengthening BEREC and item closure

01:53:59

Cybersecurity and secure connectivity — ENISA State of the Union and spectrum shadows meeting

02:00:00

ENISA Cybersecurity State of the Union — EU posture, vulnerabilities and legislative landscape

02:00:00

Chair — introduction of ENISA and debate format

02:00:00

ENISA — methodology and EU cybersecurity posture

02:01:08

ENISA — skills gap, vulnerabilities and sectoral weaknesses

02:06:24

First Q&A block with ENISA — incidents, AI threats, governance and horizontal approach

02:12:05

Coordinators’ Q&A — AI risks, incidents, NIS2 and Space Act

02:12:05

Targeted refrigerator incidents — technical causes and CRA

02:17:59

Information sharing gaps — CSIRTs, cross‑sector alerts, ENISA role

02:20:22

AI-enabled cyber threats — defender disadvantage and open-source focus

02:22:59

AI action plan — testing lab, capabilities and industrial ecosystem

02:24:51

Cybersecurity governance — multiple networks, Union strategy and NIS2 status

02:26:58

ENISA — Horizontal cybersecurity and skills needs

02:28:29

Second Q&A block — hybrid threats, resilience, dependence on providers and closing

02:32:36

MEP Gonçalves — Questions on hybrid threats and resilience

02:32:36

ENISA — Cyber Resilience Act and secure-by-design

02:34:20

ENISA — Legislation completeness and need for simplification

02:38:12

ENISA — EU cyber reserve, strategic autonomy and closing

02:40:38

Shadows meeting on spectrum — opening and debate on pricing and 2 GHz band

02:42:59

Chair: opening of shadows meeting

02:42:59

Rapporteur Winzig: state of play in spectrum negotiations

03:17:44

Weighting criterion — rationale for 5% cap

03:19:27

S&D Group — position on pricing criterion and 2 GHz band

03:26:25

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Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Ordinary meeting

10 November 2026

ITRE Tue, 10 Nov 2026 European Parliament

Follow its sittings

00:06 - 00:21

Speaker 2

Good morning, colleague. Please take your seats. It's 9:30, and we can start in time. So, welcome everyone. We can start with the agenda.

00:21 - 02:30

Speaker 3

We have a very lively commission, committee today, so we have to also take into account the time. The first item is the adoption of the agenda. If there are no comments, the agenda can be adopted. So, we go immediately to the item two. First some announcement.

As usual, today's meeting is web streamed. Interpretation will be available in 23 languages. Now we go on with the exchange of views with Mechthild Wörsdörfer, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission, on Commission Delegated Act as regards the establishment of a common Union rating scheme for data centres. And I would like to welcome Ms. Mechthild Wörsdörfer, I hope to okay, the good pronunciation for the surname, so Deputy Director-General, as I said, to this exchange of views. Thank you very much for accepting our invitation.

The Commission proposed a common rating scheme for data centres on 21st September 2026, which aims to make the energy and water use of data centres more transparent, in the form of a delegated act that is currently under scrutiny in the Parliament. The deadline for adopting an objection to this delegated act is during the January 2027 plenary session. Now, we have 40 minutes for this exchange of views. After the opening remarks of our guest, we start with the first round of coordinators or their representative, two minutes each, and continue with catch-the-eye. And catch-the-eye will take 1 minute each.

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