Dossier · Ordinary legislative procedure
Establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)
- Reference
- 2026/0078(COD) Ordinary legislative procedure
- Where it stands
- Parliament’s committee approved the deal reached with the Council on 2 September 2026; the plenary vote on it is still to come.
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Security and Defence SEDE
More facts (4)
- Rapporteurs
- Tonino PICULA, Ivars IJABS
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 11 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 1 version
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 27 April 2026
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 25 June 2026
- Tabled for plenary (done) 29 June 2026
- Plenary vote (current step) Scheduled 6 October 2026
- Negotiations with the Council (current step) Deal approved in committee 2 September 2026
- Published as law (to come)
A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.
People
Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.
- Lead committee
- Security and Defence SEDE
- Rapporteurs
- Tonino PICULA (S&D), Ivars IJABS (Renew)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Eszter LAKOS (EPP), Pierre-Romain THIONNET (Patriots), Michał DWORCZYK (ECR), Engin EROGLU (Renew), Reinier VAN LANSCHOT (Greens), Marc BOTENGA (The Left), Jan FARSKÝ (EPP), Giorgio GORI (S&D), Julie RECHAGNEUX (Patriots), Elena DONAZZAN (ECR), Sergey LAGODINSKY (Greens)
Decisions in plenary, 0
Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.
No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.
Every roll-call vote on the dossier, in date and voting order, with each group's line at the date of the vote.
No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.
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Versions, 1
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Tabled for plenary29 Jun 2026
Report A10-0188/2026 A-10-2026-0188
What changed
Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.
No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier — fewer than two versions of its text are linked in the open data.
Timeline, 7
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Negotiations with the Council 3 steps · 8 Jul 2026–2 Sept 2026
2 September 2026
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
15 July 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
8 July 2026
Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
Plenary stage 1 step · 29 Jun 2026
29 June 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps · 27 Apr 2026–25 Jun 2026
25 June 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
SEDE (Security and Defence) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
13 May 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
27 April 2026
Referred to the SEDE (Security and Defence) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Connections
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Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)”. Dossier. reference 2026/0078(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-0078 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2026/0078(COD), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026%2F0078(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2026-0078,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-0078}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-0078},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2026/0078(COD). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026\%2F0078(COD). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}