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Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution– having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, | Amendment– having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 346 thereof, |
Lynn Boylan, Özlem Demirel
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment– having regard to the December 2025 Report on the Prioritisation of Defence Funding in the EU by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Services Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach (the Oireachtas Committee Report),1a |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment1a https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/34/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_public_service_reform_and_digitalisation_and_taoiseach/reports/2025/2025-12-17_report-on-the-prioritisation-of-defence-funding-in-the-eu_en.pdf |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolutionA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; | AmendmentA. whereas the EU's defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; whereas a significant share of defence innovation potential lies in civilian companies entering the defence market for the first time, requiring distinct support pathways and dedicated funding instruments; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolutionA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; | AmendmentA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; whereas all EU defence innovation support must be conditional on full interoperability with NATO standards; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolutionA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; | AmendmentA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; whereas a majority of these SMEs are subcontractors whose growth and long-term success depend on their effective integration into the supply chains of large prime contractors; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolutionA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is increasingly dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing dual-use and defence technologies; | AmendmentA. whereas the EU’s defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB) is substantially dependent on innovative start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies developing and supplying dual-use and defence technologies and components; |
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentAa. whereas the security environment on the EU's eastern flank has fundamentally deteriorated following Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine; whereas Member States bordering the Black Sea region, including Romania, play a critical role in the defence, resilience and strategic deterrence posture of the Union and its allies; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentAa. whereas SMEs provide approximately 70% of the total value of European defence systems and account for the majority of firms operating in the EDTIB, yet continue to face disproportionate financial, regulatory and political barriers to scaling their innovations; |
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentAa. whereas, according to the European Commission's EU Defence Industry Transformation Roadmap, more than 230 defence startups have been founded in Europe since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolutionB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of disruptive technologies in modern combat; | AmendmentB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated both the decisive role of disruptive technologies in modern combat and the importance of resilient supply chains and manufacturing capacity, exposing Europe’s dependence on third countries for a number of conventional capabilities, most notably interceptors, ballistic missiles and missile defence systems; whereas the subsisting NATO non-duplication principle is incompatible with an autonomous European pillar within NATO, and Member States should therefore actively develop and scale up their own indigenous alternatives; whereas Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby has repeatedly called on European NATO Allies to develop and scale up the production of indigenous defence systems, including advanced long-range capabilities, stressing that the US defence industrial base must increasingly prioritise the Indo-Pacific and cannot be expected to meet all of Europe’s capability needs; whereas this assessment has recently been echoed by Commissioner Kubilius; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolutionB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of disruptive technologies in modern combat; | AmendmentB. whereas Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of low-cost attrition warfare, unmanned and autonomous systems, electronic warfare, cyber capabilities and other disruptive technologies in modern combat, underscoring an urgent need for the EU to invest in emerging and disruptive defence solutions, making Ukraine a critical innovation partner for the EU; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolutionB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of disruptive technologies in modern combat; | AmendmentB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of integrating new disruptive technologies, in particular unmanned and autonomous systems, in modern combined arms warfare; |
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| Motion for a resolutionB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of disruptive technologies in modern combat; | AmendmentB. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, hybrid attacks against the EU, and conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated the decisive role of disruptive technologies in modern combat; |
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentBa. whereas Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has demonstrated the growing operational importance of electronic warfare, spectrum resilience, counter-UAS systems, secure communications, AI-enabled support tools and affordable air-defence solutions in high-intensity conflict; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentBa. whereas a defence investment culture that accepts higher risk innovation procurement as well as the availability of real procurement contracts from Member States' armed forces can strengthen EU defence readiness; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentBb. whereas the Draghi report on European competitiveness identifies fragmentation, insufficient public defence spending and limited access to financing as core structural weaknesses of the EDTIB, and calls for demand aggregation, the integration of SMEs into supply chains and improved access to finance for the defence sector; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolutionC. whereas the fragmentation of national certification, testing and security accreditation regimes, combined with the absence of permanent mutual recognition, pose systemic difficulties for innovative companies; | AmendmentC. whereas the fragmentation of national certification, testing and security accreditation regimes, combined with the absence of permanent mutual recognition, pose systemic difficulties for innovative companies; whereas the fragmentation of the EDTIB is reinforced by EU competition rules and antitrust framework, which impede the consolidation and scaling-up of the Union’s defence industry, calling for an urgent review of the Merger Guidelines, as highlighted in the Draghi Report and the Defence Readiness Omnibus; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolutionC. whereas the fragmentation of national certification, testing and security accreditation regimes, combined with the absence of permanent mutual recognition, pose systemic difficulties for innovative companies; | AmendmentC. whereas the fragmentation of national certification, testing, and security accreditation regimes, with no permanent mutual recognition, pose systemic difficulties for innovative companies, thereby allowing large prime defence contractors to ringfence supply chains from smaller competitors; |
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentCa. whereas there is a need to support the establishment of regulatory sandboxes and controlled testing environments for emerging defence technologies, enabling innovators to validate new solutions under simplified procedures while maintaining appropriate safety, security and ethical safeguards; |
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentCa. whereas Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine has underscored Europe's significant capability shortfalls and its dependence on technologies developed outside the Union; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolutionD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; | AmendmentD. whereas 48 % of European defence procurement spending in 2025 went to non-EU suppliers; whereas the absence of a strong European preference in the Union’s defence instruments, together with the persistence of derogations, particularly for emerging and disruptive weapon systems, and the continued choice of some Member States, while acting in full respect of Article 346 TFEU, to favour procurement from non-EU suppliers over domestic or European alternatives, undermines the scaling-up of the EDTIB and the emergence of new domestic industrial actors; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolutionD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; | AmendmentD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; whereas, however, procurement decisions remain the sovereign prerogative of Member States and their armed forces, which are best placed to assess their national capability requirements and operational readiness needs; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolutionD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; | AmendmentD. whereas lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation where defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; whereas Member States frequently apply additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations, creating further bottlenecks for the purchase of innovative defence solutions; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolutionD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; | AmendmentD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence as well as a lack of aggregated demand and predictability have resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolutionD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; | AmendmentD. whereas the lack of progress towards an EU single market for defence and an abuse of exemptions to procurement rules has resulted in a situation in which defence SMEs and start-ups struggle to find customers; |
Lynn Boylan, Özlem Demirel
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDa. whereas the Oireachtas Committee Report highlighted that the SAFE Regulation may come into conflict with the neutrality of certain Member States; whereas the same report highlighted that funds allocated the SAFE Regulation could be used in violation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Ottawa Convention; whereas there is a responsibility to ensure that neutral Member States are not drawn into financing the defence sector of militarily-aligned Member States and that all Union financing complies with key international arms control conventions; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDa. whereas Europe does not lack innovative defence technologies or successful prototypes, but lacks predictable mechanisms enabling their transition into deployable military capabilities through testing, qualification, certification, initial operational use, first-series production, procurement, deployment and industrial scale-up; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDa. whereas insufficient access to information on EU and NATO defence innovation instruments, calls, testing opportunities and procurement pathways prevents many SMEs and start-ups, particularly from smaller and less represented Member States, from participating effectively in the European defence innovation ecosystem; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDa. whereas the growth of private investment in defence SMEs is closely linked to the expectation of government procurement contracts leading to EU defence start-ups leaving the Union to scale-up their operations while up to 50% of private European venture capital is provided by US investors; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDa. whereas building a defence union requires creating a common market for defence innovation when new actors can grow, compete and deliver capabilities for Europe's security, not just increasing budgets; |
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDa. whereas that software, artificial intelligence, cyber defence, secure communications and data-driven capabilities are increasingly central to military effectiveness; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDb. whereas speed of procurement and deployment has become a strategic factor for European defence readiness, and excessively long acquisition cycles risk driving capital, investment, talent and critical technologies to faster markets outside the Union, thereby weakening Europe’s defence industrial base, industrial resilience and ability to contribute effectively to NATO and allied defence capabilities; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDb. whereas EIB security and defence financing has increased to around EUR 4 bn in 2025, yet many companies continue to face difficulties in accessing commercial bank finance, as the EIB's intermediated lending partnerships and working capital instruments do not yet reach all member states, particularly smaller economies; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDb. whereas the EU should invest in defence together to achieve more security with more efficiency, as in a time when Member States faces fiscal constraints, European cooperation is an economic and security necessity; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDb. whereas public buyers often lack dedicated budgets, risk-sharing tools and fast procedures to purchase innovative solutions from SMEs, even when such solutions have already been tested or validated; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDc. whereas the European Innovation Council (EIC) plays an increasing role in supporting high risk, high impact companies developing dual-use and critical technologies, which may otherwise face significant barriers in accessing finance in the EU and the proposal for a regulation establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) aims to enable the rapid delivery of innovative defence solutions, however there is no EU instrument for purchasing experimental batches of innovative products, leaving a gap between grant-funded R&D and full-scale procurement; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDc. whereas the defence innovation sector faces a growing shortage of qualified personnel with combined technical, operational and entrepreneurial skills, and whereas the translation of innovative defence technologies into deployed capabilities depends not only on financial and industrial conditions but on the availability of highly skilled and resilient workforce across the full innovation cycle; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDc. whereas European SMEs can only scale up production if public buyers provide stable demand, predictable capability priorities and clear long-term market perspectives; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDd. whereas there has been an emergence of specialisation in defence innovation in Member States on the EU's Eastern Flank, who are unable to scale-up in their domestic markets alone; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentDe. whereas the administrative resources necessary to create and operate successful defence innovation ecosystems remain a significant burden for smaller Member States; whereas the same limited personnel are required for combat readiness, capability development, allied hosting, and innovation support simultaneously; |
Özlem Demirel, Lynn Boylan, Marina Mesure
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Regrets the shift of a tremendous amount of EU funds towards defence research, development and demonstration programmes, as well as procurement, which goes hand in hand with massive cuts to civilian programmes such as cohesion and social security policies, and the subordination of civilian instruments to military purposes and for the benefit of the arms industry; is concerned about the overall proposal for the new MFF for the period 2028–2034, in particular the establishment of the EU Competitiveness Fund (ECF) with €131 billion earmarked for the defence sector, which represents a fivefold increase compared to the current MFF; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; stresses, however, that EU-funded research should systematically take into account the input of the Member States’ armed forces, the EDA and the defence industry, including large prime contractors, in order to ensure that the products developed under such programmes respond to the capability needs of the Member States, thereby increasing the likelihood of subsequent procurement contracts for start-ups and SMEs and facilitating their market uptake; |
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; suggests that this could be done by one central procurement actor, acting as a true European Military Sales Mechanism on behalf of several member states serving the Union as a whole and relying on QMV for its decision-making; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products, essential to strengthening the EDTIB and EU efforts to support Ukraine; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement from Member States armed forces which must shift their procurement practices to better integrate innovative defence solutions rather than relying on established procurement procedures; |
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces, where appropriate in a coordinated manner and taking into account existing European capability planning tools, including the Capability Development Plan (CDP) and the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD); |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; notes with concern that too many programmes end at demonstrator level without a credible follow-on route to certification, operational testing, production or acquisition; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; notes with concern that too many programmes end at demonstrator level without a credible follow-on route to certification, operational testing, production or acquisition; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes shall produce and integrate successful, innovative, disruptive and cost-efficient defence products that respond to the operational needs as they are defined by Member States' armed forces; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; |
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| Motion for a resolution1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; | Amendment1. Underlines that EU-funded research, development and demonstration programmes can produce successful, innovative incremental and disruptive defence products; recalls that such efforts must be followed by timely procurement by the Member States’ armed forces; |
Özlem Demirel, Lynn Boylan, Marina Mesure
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment1a. Is concerned that research and development in the field of disruptive military technologies and autonomous weapons are playing an increasingly dominant role in the Union’s security policy; recalls that the European Parliament has already called for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons twice; is convinced that even partially autonomous systems will force the adversary to further automate its own systems and lead to an uncontrollable arms race that will ultimately and inevitably result in the introduction of killer robots; calls for a complete ban, enshrined in international law, on all autonomous weapon systems, regardless of their degree of automation; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment1a. Stresses that the transition from prototype to operational capability requires predictable demand signals, first contracts and credible follow-on procurement at European and national levels; calls, where appropriate, to establish dedicated first-customer schemes for Union-based defence SMEs, start-ups and new market entrants whose solutions have successfully completed relevant testing or operational experimentation; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment1a. Encourages the removal of lower entry barriers for non-traditional vendors by removing non-critical security requirements in early testing and fielding to enable SMEs and non-traditional vendors to participate in defence innovation; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment1b. Considers that Member States who are also members of NATO should isolate part of their 2%-20% contribution goals to include a dedicated minimum expenditure towards research and development within their defence budgets; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; notes further that acquisition cycles are too long for innovative companies – for smaller firms, even a 12–18 month delay between defining requirements and launching procurement can be critical, while for more complex systems this lifecycle can reach 3–5 years; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators including by creating ring-fenced first-user envelopes for the purchase, testing and limited operational deployment of European innovations by armed forces and other public end-users; stresses that such envelopes should be managed close to operational users, should tolerate reasonable technological risk and to consider a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies where a potential strategic advantage can be achieved; |
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to ensure that innovative companies are given a predictable pathway from development to procurement through specific procurement procedures for fast-changing defence technologies; highlights the fact that defence procurement should be based to a greater extent on operational capability needs and continuous identification of both known and emerging capability gaps, through recurrent testing, operational evaluation and close end-user feedback; calls on the Member States to take as a starting point the solution of specific operational problems, rather than quantitative spending targets, so as to ensure the development of capabilities that are actually usable, as well as improved military capacity; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; notes further that acquisition cycles are too long for innovative companies – for smaller firms, even a 12–18 month delay between defining requirements and launching procurement can be critical, while for more complex systems this lifecycle can reach 3–5 years; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators, establish clear and predictable pathways from prototype to operational deployment, and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; |
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to explore joint procurement mechanisms for solutions developed under EU-funded collaborative projects, thereby accelerating market uptake and interoperability among Member States' armed forces; calls on the Member States to progressively increase the share of defence procurement dedicated to emerging and disruptive technologies, including solutions developed by SMEs and start-ups; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that, in the absence of follow-on contracts and sufficient venture capital and early-stage private financing infrastructure within the Union, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators, to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies, and to review their pension investment frameworks to unlock additional capital for the early-stage financing of defence start-ups and SMEs; |
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Calls on the Member States to make better use of existing innovation procurement tools, including pre-commercial procurement and pilot procurement mechanisms, in order to provide first reference contracts for innovative defence solutions and to strengthen the link between successful EU-funded projects and subsequent procurement by Member States’ armed forces; |
Özlem Demirel, Lynn Boylan
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that the absence of follow-on contracts must not lead to Member States to set a fixed target of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators; encourages Member States to set an aspirational national target of at least 20 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies by 2030, to be reported annually to the European Defence Agency in order to monitor progress and identify best practices across the Union; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Recognises that defence SMEs face two distinct valleys of death, the first between technological development and capability validation, and second between validated capability and market adoption; stresses that EU instruments must address both rather than concentrating solely on early-stage research support and underlines that in the absence of follow-on contracts after successful research and development results, innovative companies may fail or relocate to third countries, reversing the progress made so far; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts and a lack of predictable demand signals, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec, Engin Eroglu
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; recommends the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and prioritize, to the necessary level, defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; |
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies; | Amendment2. Notes that in the absence of follow-on contracts, innovative companies may fail or relocate to non-EU countries, reversing the progress made so far; calls on the Member States to develop a common European innovation procurement mechanisms that provides first contracts to EU innovators and to set a target of at least 10 % of defence procurement expenditure for such a mechanism; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment2a. Welcomes the initiative to reduce administrative burden in the European Defence Fund (EDF) through the defence readiness omnibus for SMEs; regrets however that the majority of new EU defence funding continues to flow to large prime contractors; considers that current EU instruments and the funding processes associated with them remain too slow to effectively support defence innovation where speed is essential; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment2a. Emphasises that the European defence market should develop under the principles of fair competition, innovation, and open access for qualified manufacturers; notes that stability of demand and clear long-term perspectives are essential for the sustainability of European defence producers; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment2b. Warns that excessive concentration of EU defence funding and procurement in a small number of large prime contractors risks crowding out the innovative SMEs and mid-caps that are the primary sources of technological dynamism in the EDTIB; stresses that while consolidation may deliver short-term production scale, it can stifle innovation and narrow the industrial base in ways that undermine long-term European defence competitiveness; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment2b. Highlights the importance of scaling up local industrial capacity to ensure competitiveness, resilience and the long-term viability of the European unmanned systems sectors and calls for the creation of innovation corridors and testing sites across all regions of the Union, to ensure access to funding and to stimulate local ecosystems of start-ups, SMEs and research institutes contributing to Europe’s technological sovereignty; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment2c. Calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to domestic innovators thereby providing a credible platform for up take across the EU and to set a target of at least 10% of defence procurement expenditure for emerging and disruptive technologies in both defence and dual-use spaces and to report annually on implementation; furthermore, calls on the Commission to ensure that EU instruments provide the pathway for follow-on orders, as well as second and third customers across borders; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment2c. Calls on the EDA to permit Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to ensure that a baseline supply is met; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; | Amendment3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements, together with disproportionate EU regulatory requirements affecting industrial and primary inputs essential to the defence supply chains, creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the development, production and procurement of innovative defence solutions; welcomes the recent Defence Readiness Omnibus and calls on the Commission, in close coordination with the Member States and industrial actors, to continue identifying and removing unnecessary and disproportionate regulatory burdens that weigh on the competitiveness of the EDTIB; |
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| Motion for a resolution3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; | Amendment3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; highlights the fact that even the current EU legal framework in some respects puts up significant barriers to innovation, scaling-up and the placing on the market of defence and dual-use technologies, and calls on the Commission to bring forward proposals to remove such barriers; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; | Amendment3. Considers that Member States' application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks for the purchase of innovative defence solutions; regrets that a risk-averse culture in public institutions, compounded by legal environments in which spending on unproven technologies by public officials can result in excessive penalties, further discourages the procurement of disruptive solutions; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec
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| Motion for a resolution3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; | Amendment3. Calls on the Member States who apply additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations in the procurement of innovative defence solutions to check that it does not create unnecessary bottlenecks; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; | Amendment3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU law and NATO standards creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution3. Considers that Member States’ application of additional national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; | Amendment3. Considers that insufficient harmonisation of Member States’ national requirements on top of existing EU regulations creates unnecessary bottlenecks in the procurement of innovative defence solutions; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3a. Stresses that the lack of a more integrated defence market disproportionately affects SMEs, start-ups and new entrants, which often lack the administrative capacity to navigate divergent national requirements; calls on the Commission to identify unjustified barriers that hinder innovative defence solutions from reaching customers across the Union, while fully respecting Member States’ responsibilities in the field of national security and defence; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the practical implementation of rules on intra-EU transfers, export licensing and dual-use or military-character goods by developing guidance, common indicative timelines, single points of contact and best-practice templates, while fully respecting Member States’ exclusive responsibility for national security and their competence to assess, approve or refuse sensitive transfers and licences; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3a. Calls on the EDA and the Commission to explore additional measures to fast-track European SME deployment of high-impact defence systems in a way that enables these SMEs to pursue export opportunities beyond Europe – to ensure their commercial viability – while simultaneously developing European defence capabilities and facilitating integration with the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) and promoting frequent joint innovation efforts; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3a. Highlights that a growing share of defence innovation originates from civilian companies entering the defence market for the first time with viable commercial technologies; calls on the Commission to ensure that EU programmes and support instruments clearly differentiate between dual-use companies and those purely focused on defence rather than a one-size-fits-all approach; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3b. Calls for the prioritisation of financing for the UAS and C-UAS sectors, particularly spare parts, modular reparability, and rapid engine replacement capabilities in order to ensure that units remain operational under combat conditions; stresses the need for a coherent industrial and supply chain policy that provides European industry with incentives to produce scalable and easily repairable systems, while maintaining adequate stockpiles of critical components; urges the Commission and the Member States to remove procurement bottlenecks that hinder timely production and the fielding of essential defence equipment; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3c. Encourages the Commission to reinforce EDF scoring incentives favouring multinational consortia, shared platforms and high EU origin content; stresses that such measures are vital to consolidate demand, boost resilience and scale up Europe’s autonomous drone capabilities; supports the development of a sovereignty index to measure and incentivise the reduction of dependencies on non-EU sources across the value chain; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3c. Recognises that the majority of drone industry firms are SMEs and start-ups, and that it is therefore essential to simplify procedures and support measures for SMEs, such as grants, regulatory support, integration and scaling; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment3e. Calls for ensuring that EDF projects and other EU joint procurement initiatives in defence have priority rating orders that aid speedy acquisition processes and reduce complications in procurements; |
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; stresses that this transition also requires investment in tooling, certification, working capital, production equipment and industrial scale-up; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that relevant Union defence industrial instruments support the expansion of production capacities of SMEs, mid-caps and specialised suppliers producing defence products and critical components within the Union and contribute to a more geographically diversified and resilient European defence supply chain; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; |
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; emphasises the need to develop European industrial preparedness through investment in dual-use production facilities, while deepening cooperation between the defence industry and civilian industry so that, where necessary, civilian production capacities can be swiftly mobilised and repurposed to meet the EU’s defence and security needs; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; calls on the Commission and Member States to fully leverage NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) and the NATO Innovation Fund as essential complements to EU defence innovation instruments, avoiding duplication and maximising synergies within the transatlantic framework; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; stresses that public support is too often focused on research and development while the most difficult and underfunded phase remains scaling production, securing components, building capacity, testing in operational conditions and delivering a first usable series; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; stresses that public support is too often focused on research and development while the most difficult and underfunded phase remains scaling production, securing components, building capacity, testing in operational conditions and delivering a first usable series; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production, creating a critical bottleneck in the defence innovation pipeline; welcomes therefore NATO's initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; calls on the Commission and the EDA to complement this with EU-level funding and support mechanisms to speed up bridging the gap from prototype to serial production; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; calls on the EU to mirror such an initiative as part of EUDIS and its successors; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec, Engin Eroglu
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; recommends the EU to better support and connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative; |
Özlem Demirel, Lynn Boylan, Marina Mesure
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| Motion for a resolution4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure needed to move from validated prototypes to serial production; welcomes, therefore, NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; | Amendment4. Notes that defence start-ups and new market entrants frequently lack the manufacturing infrastructure, which should not lead to NATO’s initiative to connect defence innovators with civilian companies that have spare production facilities; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Recognises that, alongside emerging and disruptive technologies, incremental innovation plays a crucial role in enhancing defence capabilities, increasing operational readiness and ensuring the rapid adaptation of existing systems to evolving threats; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that defence innovation support and procurement instruments adequately cover both breakthrough technologies and incremental improvements with clear operational value; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Stresses that the ability to scale innovative defence systems depends on secure and timely access to critical components and sub-systems, including sensors, optics, microelectronics, batteries, propulsion systems, flight controllers, secure communications modules and energetics; calls on the Commission to assess strategic dependencies affecting emerging defence technologies and to support component-level resilience within the EDTIB; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to facilitate access to industrialisation capacity for new defence actors, including through matchmaking with civilian manufacturers, contract manufacturing, first-series production support and protected supply-chain arrangements, while ensuring security of supply and protection of intellectual property; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Notes that the overly broad use of Article 346 TFEU by certain Member States fragments the European defence market and limits cross-border access for SMEs and new defence actors; calls on the Commission to more rigorously scrutinise such justifications and ensure the exemption is applied only in cases of genuine security necessity; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to establish dedicated support for industrialisation and first usable series production of innovative defence technologies, including support for securing components, building production capacity, testing in operational conditions and delivering the first deployable series; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Encourages the Commission to strengthen the participation of SMEs and start-ups in Union defence programmes through simplified administrative procedures, dedicated calls and measures aimed at reducing barriers to entry; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4a. Calls for the establishment of regional innovation clusters that connect SMEs, research centres and larger defence integrators to promote technology transfer and industrial synergies; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4b. Stresses that large defence industrial companies, particularly those located on the EU’s eastern flank, play an essential role as system integrators and coordinators of SME subcontractor networks; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that future EU defence instruments support not only individual innovators but also industrial ecosystems capable of integrating, certifying and producing innovative solutions at scale; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4b. Calls for the development of dedicated scale-up instruments to bridge the gap between prototype development and industrial production, including support for certification, manufacturing readiness, supply chain development and deployment at scale; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4b. Recognises the EDF’s potential in aiding SME development into key suppliers and encourages programmes that aid SME capacity to source components, develop manufacturing engineering and support high levels of automation to ramp up production; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4c. Encourages the Member States and the Council to integrate next-generation drone technologies such as edge AI, swarm autonomy and hardened C2 links into the EDTIB, while seeking the gradual and mutually beneficial integration of the Ukrainian defence technology and industrial base and making use of long-term industrial roadmaps, flagship EDF clusters and to fast-track EDIP instruments to ensure timely adaptation and preserve the Union’s technological edge; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish fast-track procurement pathways for innovative SMEs and start-ups, reducing the time between successful prototype validation and first operational procurement, while ensuring transparency, competition and security requirements; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4d. Calls for the Union and its Member States to urgently work on concrete projects intended to fill capability gaps in the field of integrated air and missile defence, particularly related to drone and anti-drone warfare, in order to create a multilayered deep zone of technologically advanced systems with interoperable anti-drone capabilities for detection, tracking and neutralisation; invites the Member States to consider using the European Defence Projects of Common Interest framework to set up the projects; recognises the need for cross-sector collaboration between the defence, cybersecurity and research communities in order to develop holistic strategies that integrate the latest digital and cyber defence technologies; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4d. Calls on the Commission to assess the feasibility of a European First Customer Facility enabling Member States, EU bodies and relevant agencies to jointly procure limited operational batches of innovative defence technologies developed by European SMEs and start-ups, thereby accelerating market entry and operational validation; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4e. Recognises that the pace of technological evolution in the field of unmanned and counter-unmanned systems is unprecedented and calls on the Commission, the EDA and Member States to adopt faster innovation and acquisition cycles, enabling rapid fielding of new drone and C-UAS technologies; stresses that lengthy certification, procurement and testing processes risk making EU capabilities obsolete by the time they are deployed; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4f. Calls for ensuring that EDF eligibility criteria are adjusted to ensure higher scoring for joint procurements with more equitable geographical representation of Member States, ensuring that consortia being built are in a position to ramp up their defence industrial production; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4g. Stresses the importance of directing strategic investments to relevant industrial and technological hubs across the EU and supporting raw material processing, semiconductor production, battery manufacturing, drone assembly and C2 integration, while ensuring that such investments also strengthen the broader European defence industrial base; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4h. Encourages the Member States to prioritise onshoring of critical components by: |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmenta. co-financing production facilities in the Member States for brushless DC motors, lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, and electro-optical sensors through public-private partnerships; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentb. offering Member State-backed subsidies and tax incentives for firms willing to localise production within the EU and ensuring that this is coordinated at EU level to ensure maximum efficiency and mitigate distortions of competition in the internal market; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentc. leveraging the European Chips Act to prioritise defence applications in the allocation of strategic semiconductor funding; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4e. Calls for software, artificial intelligence, cyber defence, secure communications and data-driven capabilities to be treated on an equal footing with traditional defence platforms within Union support instruments; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment4f. Calls for dedicated support within EU defence programmes for autonomous systems, counter-UAS solutions, advanced sensing technologies, software-defined capabilities and artificial intelligence applications with defence relevance; |
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; notes that Europe’s defence innovation system too often rewards the development of prototypes rather than the delivery of genuine military capabilities; emphasises that grants and R&D support cannot replace demand from public clients and that innovation can only be scaled up when there are credible procurement opportunities; calls, therefore, on the Member States to take a more active role as clients, especially with regard to purchasing from domestic SMEs and new defence actors; emphasises that this requires a revision of the Defence Procurement Directive so that research, development, prototyping, testing and subsequent acquisition are parts of a single procurement process, based on high exposure to competition, short innovation cycles and development contracts awarded to multiple bidders with payment for milestones achieved in the development process; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; calls on the Commission to take the utmost account of the input of the Member States, the EDA and industrial actors in the implementation of EU defence instruments, to ensure that the products developed under those instruments meet the capability needs of the Member States’ armed forces; expresses, therefore, concern over the unprecedented use of the consultation procedure for the work programme under the proposed AGILE Regulation, as it further disconnects EU-funded research from the input of the Member States’ armed forces and their capability needs, thereby weakening the prospects for the market uptake of products developed by the start-ups supported under this instrument; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors, thereby building the credibility needed to attract follow-on investment and foreign customers, and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; emphasises that without a national authority, armed forces or another public buyer acting as a first user, SMEs cannot build the credibility needed with foreign customers, investors or larger defence integrators; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; stresses, moreover, that first-customer contracts must be driven by genuine capability requirements identified by national armed forces and must comply with NATO's capability targets for each Member State, ensuring that innovation procurement is demand-led rather than supply-driven; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors, thereby building the credibility needed to attract follow-on investment and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; emphasises that without a national authority, armed forces or another public buyer acting as a first user, SMEs cannot build the credibility needed with European and foreign customers, investors or larger defence integrators; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded R&D and national procurement decisions; calls on the Commission to establish a dedicated experimental procurement category within Union defence instruments; calls on Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors, earmark dedicated innovation procurement budgets within their defence expenditure frameworks to develop procurement competence and adopt functional specifications in defence procurement, describing required capabilities rather than technical requirements, that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; |
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; urges the Member States to establish platforms for innovators to access information on defence forces' capability gaps; |
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for innovative defence SMEs and new defence actors, including through pilot contracts, operational testing and limited initial deployment, and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping, operational validation and scale-up stages; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec, Engin Eroglu
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the lack of coordination between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the EU to incentivize Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for European defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for domestic defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; | Amendment5. Highlights the structural disconnect between EU-funded research and development (R&D) and national procurement decisions; calls on the Member States to serve as first customers for European defence SMEs and new defence actors and to foster the uptake of innovative solutions using contracts that allow for flexibility during prototyping and scale-up stages; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment5a. Underlines that procurement is only one element in the transformation of a validated prototype into an operational capability; stresses that new systems must, where appropriate, be integrated into doctrine, training, command-and-control structures, logistics, maintenance, cybersecurity arrangements and operational planning; calls on the Member States to accompany innovation procurement with clear adoption pathways within their armed forces; |
Özlem Demirel, Lynn Boylan, Marina Mesure
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment5a. Is deeply concerned about the current European approach to boosting a war economy in the face of economic recession; emphasises that a war economy is not, and cannot be regarded as sustainable, but diverts public funds away from highly sustainable policies such as poverty eradication, social and environmental policies, which are of outstanding value to society as a whole compared with military and armaments spending; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment5a. Calls on the Commission to establish a dedicated platform to provide SMEs with information on procurement opportunities, and to work with Member States to simplify and harmonise procurement procedures and industrial partnerships across the EU; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment5b. Encourages the Member States to assess the potential of secure digital tools for innovation procurement, including platforms enabling authorised military users to express urgent operational needs, evaluate tested solutions and provide structured feedback to procurement authorities and suppliers, while fully respecting national security, operational confidentiality, cybersecurity, classified information rules and export-control requirements; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment5c. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU defence innovation and scale-up instruments are open to consortia led by established defence companies where such consortia include meaningful participation by SMEs, start-ups and mid-caps, and where the prime contractor assumes responsibility for integration, testing, certification and delivery (eg. by using cascading fund schemes); |
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Emphasises the problem of procurement that prescribes specific technical solutions instead of identifying the operational problems to be solved; calls, therefore, on the Member States to base procurement on capability needs and the desired effects, and to accept that the development of breakthrough technologies involves a degree of failure; calls, furthermore, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; underlines that resource pooling must remain under Member State control through the EDA framework and must not result in the creation of a centralised EU procurement agency with binding purchasing authority over national armed forces; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; supports the development of procurement mechanisms allowing pilot production, pre-commercial procurement, milestone-based contracts and pre-financing of critical materials where justified by defence readiness needs; |
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; stresses that Union-supported joint procurement and defence industrial instruments should promote industrial cooperation, transparent subcontracting opportunities and supply-chain participation for SMEs, mid-caps and specialised suppliers from across the Union, including from Member States with less developed defence industrial bases, while ensuring fair competition and strengthening the EDTIB as a whole; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; deplores the persistent priority given in national procurement decisions to conventional military platforms over unmanned and autonomous systems that substantially shape modern warfare; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Notes that political commitments to defence innovation can fail to translate into procurement decisions because officials with assigned budgets are incentivised to avoid risk; calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes and to develop accountability frameworks that distinguish between negligent spending and informed risk-taking, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products, and that this is a necessary cost of maintaining a competitive defence innovation ecosystem; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets and to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; | Amendment6. Calls on the Member States to establish innovation procurement budgets that are explicitly not tied to guaranteed outcomes, accepting that a proportion of spending on emerging technologies will not result in fielded products; calls, in this context, on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, especially for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; underlines that, in order to harmonize the situation among member States, there is the necessity of a joint procurement coordinated at a European level; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment6a. Calls for building redundant and diversified supply chains that: |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmenta. encourage dual-sourcing strategies for essential drone components across multiple EU Member States and like-minded partners; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentb. support domestic rare-earth extraction and refinement efforts under the Critical Raw Materials Act, while building recycling capacity for lithium, cobalt, and neodymium magnets; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentc. establish emergency stockpiles of critical drone components for use during geopolitical supply disruptions; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentd. ensure drone production is decentralised across the EU to limit supply-chain risks and enhance security of supply for drones; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment6a. Calls in this context on the Member States to pool resources for the procurement of innovative defence solutions, in particular for products that have successfully completed EU-funded programmes; encourages the Member States, in cooperation with NATO and the EDA, to make use of mechanisms that would allow one Member State to join an existing procurement contract initiated by another, reducing duplication and accelerating the uptake of validated innovative solutions across the EU; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment6a. Calls on the Commission and the EDA, in close cooperation with the Member States, to explore a voluntary EU framework for advance purchase commitments and framework contracts for innovative defence solutions, particularly in areas where Member States have identified common capability gaps and where aggregated demand could reduce market-entry barriers for SMEs and start-ups; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment6a. Calls on the Member States to learn the lessons from Ukraine for procurement of emerging and disruptive technologies, namely the use of innovative solutions such as marketplaces for procurement directly by units and brigades according to their needs and battlefield experience; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); | Amendment7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the AGILE regulation and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) by converting it into a permanent instrument of the EU's defence innovation landscape; recalls that contracts, rather than grants, enable defence companies to attract private investment and scaleup production; invites the Commission to examine the feasibility of an EU equivalent to the US Other Transaction Authority as a flexible, rapid procurement pathway noting that many SMEs struggle to navigate the complex procurement landscape and the multiple platforms where opportunities are published; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); | Amendment7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) with particular attention to the programme's ability to bridge the gap between R&D output and serial production; calls on the Commission to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) only following a positive assessment of AGILE's capacity to deliver fielded capabilities, and to ensure that funded projects demonstrate clear alignment with Member States' identified military capability shortfalls and NATO common requirements; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); | Amendment7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) - in particular with regard to its contribution to strengthening the European defence innovation ecosystem, attracting innovative companies and investment to the Union, accelerating the operational uptake of new technologies and enhancing cooperation between defence actors and the wider deep-tech ecosystem - and to continue this contract-based model under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) in addition to long-term, high-impact projects; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); | Amendment7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); calls in particular for AGILE to adopt faster decision-making, lighter procedures, milestone-based funding and shorter timeframes from application to funded work; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); | Amendment7. Calls on the Commission to undertake an early assessment of the proposed regulation for a programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) and to scale up this contract-based model substantially under the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF); calls in particular for AGILE to adopt faster decision-making, lighter procedures, milestone-based funding and shorter timeframes from application to funded work; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment7a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that AGILE, EUDIS and future ECF instruments include a dedicated transition track for SMEs that have completed recognised EU or NATO accelerators, demonstrations or operational pilots, so that successful validation can be followed by a first paid contract, limited first series production or procurement preparation support; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment7a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that AGILE and future contract-based instruments are accompanied, where appropriate, by clear demand signals at European and national levels, including advance procurement commitments, framework contracts and pooled procurement opportunities for solutions that successfully complete testing and demonstration; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment7a. Underlines the need for a cross-EU effort to secure reliable access to critical raw materials, such as lithium, rare-earth magnets and semiconductors, and to invest in high-performance batteries, sensors and secure datalinks; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment7b. Encourages the rapid alignment of doctrine and the aggregation of demand for UAS and C-UAS with Ukraine, to streamline the development and integration of drones; |
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on the Member States to undertake wide-ranging modernisation of their defence institutions to ensure that innovation, technology development and experience from modern warfare permeate throughout the defence system, from the establishment of requirements and procurement to training, doctrine development and operational activities; highlights the fact that modern warfare is increasingly based on large quantities of autonomous and cost-effective systems operating together, rather than on the performance of individual platforms; emphasises, therefore, the importance of interoperability and modular system architectures that make it possible for technologies from different providers to be swiftly integrated and coordinated, and for new capabilities to be continuously deployed; calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to support Member States through training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; |
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on the EDA, in cooperation with the Commission and the Member States, to better coordinate existing European and national pathways through which SMEs, start-ups and new defence actors can present operationally relevant concepts, receive feedback from military end users and be guided towards testing, certification and procurement opportunities, building where appropriate on existing national innovation units and relevant Union defence industrial instruments; further encourages regular dialogue with relevant defence industry associations and clusters in order to better identify operational needs and industrial bottlenecks; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces; calls on the EDA to expand its existing technical support instrument into a permanent function to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff, addressing their needs in capability planning, procurement facilitation, access to testing infrastructures, certification and end-user feedback; furthermore, calls on the Member States to resource the EDA adequately for this expanded mandate and welcomes the EDA's Ministerial Steering Board taking steps to strengthen the EDA's functions on innovation, experimentation and collaborative procurement; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; calls on Member States to designate national defence innovation contact points or strengthen industrial cooperation units, with the support of the EDA, where appropriate, to guide SMEs through EU, NATO and national instruments, translate operational needs into market-oriented demand and support contracting authorities in the use of innovation procurement tools; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; calls on the EDA to develop this capacity-building programme in close coordination with NATO's Allied Command Transformation (ACT) to ensure coherence with NATO's own innovation and capability development doctrine, and to include training modules on transatlantic industrial cooperation; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces to accelerate innovation cycles and reduce time to market and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec, Engin Eroglu
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| Motion for a resolution8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for national ministry of defence staff; | Amendment8. Calls on the Member States to expand the use of dedicated innovation units within their armed forces and calls further on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to provide training and capacity-building for Member States willing it; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8a. Notes that there is a lack of coordinated approach among armed forces in Member States to proactively communicate capability needs to industry; calls on the EDA to develop a service that aggregates and communicates capability needs on behalf of Member States, ensuring that their operational requirements are visible to the innovation ecosystem; calls on the Commission to explore the creation of a secured EU digital marketplace for defence innovation, drawing on the model of Ukraine's Brave1 Market platform, where SMEs can list products and procurement officials can identify solutions directly, linked where possible to EDIP's Military Sales Catalogue; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8a. Notes that SMEs face significant barriers to accessing EU defence funds and are often excluded from large-scale procurement dominated by established contractors; encourages the creation of specific SME onboarding mechanisms, including reduced administrative burdens, direct-funding instruments with tolerance for failure, mini-grants and rapid-funding tools, while ensuring fair conditions through proportionate consortium requirements, reasonable guarantees and flexible payment terms; further encourages the inclusion of start-ups and research organisations in procurement processes; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8a. Recognises the challenges of rapidly evolving technologies in the modern battlefield and recommends the integration of anti-drone rifles, missiles, interceptor drones, drone catchers, gun-based close-in weapon systems, anti-drone jamming rifles and signal intelligence, electronic warfare (EW) capabilities and resilient C2 into infantry forces via training and attachment of EW units so infantry forces can operate effectively on the front line, maximising their protection and repair capability, and ensuring the correct identification and interception of enemy drones; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8a. Recommends EDA and Member States should expand cooperation with the private sector, beyond ‘classical’ partners in the defence industry and include a mentoring and training partnership with select tech firms aimed at importing deeper technological know-how into Member State Armed Forces; building new partnerships with NATO, the private sector, academia, and NGOs will enable the EDA and Member States to increase awareness, share data, and creatively tap into experiences and knowledge; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8a. Calls on the Member States to strengthen operational adoption mechanisms within their armed forces, including fast-track procedures for user training, doctrine development, lessons learned, maintenance planning and integration into existing units, in order to ensure that innovative technologies procured by public authorities are effectively absorbed and used as well as the European Commission to support where necessary; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8a. Reiterates its call for the establishment of a European Centre of Excellence for Drone Warfare, where Ukrainian instructors pass on their expertise to the EU Member States; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8b. Warns that the absence of rapid adoption of new technologies creates a time-critical capability gap in the initial phase of combat that adversaries could exploit, leading to higher casualties and reduced operational freedom, and calls for urgent measures to close this gap through training and doctrinal adaptation; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8c. Stresses the challenge posed by the current unsustainably high cost of drone interceptions and calls for joint programmes and market-driven initiatives to promote the development of cost-effective C-UAS capabilities such as EW, laser, acoustic detection systems and AI-guided interception to lower the per-intercept cost and calls on the Commission to study the feasibility of using current defence industrial tools to support the goal of lowering the per-intercept cost of drones; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8d. Encourages Member States to support permanent innovation units and training across national security services where commercial technologies are tested in real operational settings and by end users; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8e. Encourages Member State cooperation in the joint establishment of NATO Innovation Ranges where armed forces and vendors can engage in year-round testing; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment8f. Calls on the Commission to include, within the framework of its Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreements, the need for the European drone industry and the Member States to secure sufficient reserves of the key materials and components essential for UAS development; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Welcomes the agreed provisions of the Defence Readiness Omnibus, including the increase of procurement thresholds and simplified innovation partnership procedures; looks forward to the forthcoming comprehensive revision of the defence procurement directive and the general public procurement directive and calls on the Commission to ensure flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles including research and development, prototyping, experimentation, demonstration, and entry-level purchases of innovative solutions and address the inability of Member States to procure innovative products developed under research and development contracts without launching a new competitive procedure; calls on the Commission to complement legislative amendments with practical implementation support, recognising that in smaller Member States procurement agencies often lack the administrative capacity to interpret and apply new rules; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8and general9procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; emphasises how important it is for regulation to reflect the different requirements for the various types of defence equipment; emphasises that traditional larger equipment systems with long development and life cycles require procurement procedures that are different from those used for fast-changing defence technologies, where the pace of innovation is high and the technology is continuously evolving; calls for the creation of a parallel procurement system with specific, simplified and more flexible procedures for innovative defence technologies, with classification based on the technological sophistication and rate of consumption of the products concerned; emphasises that such a system will enable rapid development, iterative testing, scaling-up and continuous acquisition, without delaying or affecting the procurement of conventional defence systems; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). | Amendment8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). | Amendment9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence and general procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; explicitly enabling pilot series, pre-financing, iterative development and operational testing; calls further on the Commission to facilitate the exchange of best practices and provide voluntary templates, benchmarks and guidance for Member States wishing to modernise their national acquisition procedures, with the aim of supporting faster, more flexible and innovation-friendly procurement, while fully respecting Member States’ responsibility for defence procurement and national security; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Stresses that future Union defence innovation instruments and procurement rules should introduce simplified, proportionate and fast-track application and evaluation procedures for SMEs, start-ups and defence-first companies, with reduced administrative burdens, shorter evaluation timelines and requirements proportionate to the size and maturity of the project; further stresses that procurement rules should better reflect operational value, security of supply, delivery reliability, innovation and life-cycle value; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles, explicitly enabling pilot series, pre-financing, iterative development and operational testing calls further on the Commission to use EU instruments to incentivise Member States to adopt faster, more flexible and innovation-friendly national acquisition procedures through templates, benchmarks and targeted conditions; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). | Amendment9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles, and include robust security-of-supply requirements and enhanced foreign ownership screening provisions ensuring that defence SMEs benefiting from EU-funded programmes remain under the control of EU or trusted allied investors; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). | Amendment8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). | Amendment9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Welcomes the forthcoming revisions of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions significantly raise thresholds for procurement, in line with the Council’s position, to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens and accelerate national procurement processes, as well as to offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). | Amendment8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). | Amendment9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution9. Welcomes the forthcoming revision of the defence8 and general9 procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions raise thresholds for innovation procurement and offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles; | Amendment9. Is concerned with the postponement of the publication of the revision of the defence8 and general procurement directives; calls on the Commission to ensure that these revisions offer flexible procedures across all stages of defence and dual-use innovation cycles and on Member States to transpose them in a way that ensures a fair, competitive single market for emerging and disruptive defence technologies; |
| Motion for a resolution8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). | Amendment8 Directive 2009/81/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on the coordination of procedures for the award of certain works contracts, supply contracts and service contracts by contracting authorities or entities in the fields of defence and security, and amending Directives 2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC (OJ L 216, 20.8.2009, p. 76, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/81/oj). |
| Motion for a resolution9 Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/24/oj). |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment9a. Calls on the EDA to support Member States, where appropriate, in identifying good practices for procurement procedures that recognise credible references, deployments or validations from another Member State, NATO, EU instruments or trusted allies; stresses that innovative SMEs should not be excluded solely because they lack a domestic reference, provided that their solution has already been credibly tested or deployed elsewhere; underlines that such recognition could help reduce duplication and gradually improve interoperability, while leaving final procurement decisions fully with Member States; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment9a. Calls on the Commission, in the context of the revision of procurement rules, to examine how modular procurement approaches could allow Member States, on a voluntary basis and in line with their national defence planning, to acquire, replace and upgrade components such as sensors, software, effectors, communications modules and electronic warfare tools without unnecessary administrative burden or avoidable delays, while preserving their ability to define additional national security and operational requirements; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment9a. Notes that multiple-award contracting has been found to increase the overall share of SMEs participating in procurement1a; calls therefore on Member States to prioritise indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity framework contracts awarded to multiple vendors and to reserve a specific percentage of orders procured under these contracts for start-ups and SMEs; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment1a See further E. Kapstein, J. Ospital and G.B. Wolff (2026) Reforming European defence procurement to boost military innovation and startups. (https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/reforming-european-defence-procurement-boost-military-innovation-and-startups) |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment9a. Notes with concern the delay in the presentation of the European Innovation Act; urges the Commission to present it without further delay and to ensure it includes adequate provisions for defence and dual-use innovation, including simplified certification procedures, access to testing infrastructure, and flexible procurement pathways for innovative companies; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment9a. Stresses the strategic importance of regional defence and security clusters and calls for dedicated EU funding lines to integrate their know-how and infrastructure into cross-border projects that enhance the resilience of Europe’s critical infrastructure; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment9b. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to develop fast-track procurement models (for example based on modular and open system architecture) for industrially mature defence companies that can rapidly absorb innovative technologies from SMEs and bring them into serial production, including through subcontracting, licensing and co-development; such approach is not only speeding up innovation absorption during the procurement face but allow to maintain a product openness for future upgrades without significant modernisation costs during its service; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution10. Notes that, while early-stage EU defence funding is improving, a critical gap remains at the growth stage; stresses that such investment is dependent on the expectation of contracts, and that without procurement reform this capital gap cannot be closed by financial instruments alone; | Amendment10. Notes that, while early-stage EU defence funding is improving, a critical gap remains at the growth stage; stresses that such investment is dependent on the expectation of contracts, and that without procurement reform this capital gap cannot be closed by financial instruments alone; stresses the importance of private financing for the defence sector, especially at the early stage, as private actors have a higher risk tolerance than institutional actors; encourages Member States to facilitate the unlocking of European private pension funds for defence and dual-use investment, as they would provide much needed early-stage and VC capital to defence start-ups and SMEs; encourages Member States and the Commission to further remove unnecessary ESG exclusions and to continue clarifying that investment in defence and security is compatible with fiduciary obligations; welcomes Denmark’s leadership in this regard; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10a. Stresses that defence financing should remain primarily driven by Member States and private actors, and not by joint debt issuance or direct EU instruments, as nationally managed procurement allows for more direct and efficient interactions between defence industrial actors and the Member States’ armed forces; reiterates that the scaling-up of the EDTIB depends first and foremost on higher and sustained defence spending by the Member States, as evidenced by the experience of the Cold War; welcomes the joint efforts by European NATO members to increase their defence spending in line with the 2025 The Hague NATO summit; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10a. Emphasises that the European defence market should develop on the basis of fair competition, innovation and open access for qualified manufacturers and SMEs; notes that stability of demand and clear long-term capability priorities are essential for the sustainability of European SMEs; highlights the importance of scaling up local industrial capacity in order to strengthen competitiveness, resilience and the long-term viability of the European defence sector; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10a. Calls on the national and international procurement and contracting authorities, including, among others, the Commission and the EDA, to establish open and transparent pre-approved vendor lists and priority orders for critical defence technologies and platforms, in close coordination with the Member States and ensuring equal access for SMEs across the Union, to allow faster contracting during crises; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10a. Stresses that many defence SMEs and start-ups face significant working-capital constraints when moving from prototype to production, particularly before receiving large procurement orders; calls on the European Investment Bank Capital Group, national promotional banks and the Commission to further develop targeted guarantees, pre-financing and working-capital instruments for innovative defence companies; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10b. Stresses that such lists should be based on transparent and competitive selection processes that are regularly updated to reflect operational feedback (including from Ukraine), and should avoid creating long-term market favours that could distort competition; calls for the expansion of access to EU financial instruments and for procurement procedures that include start-ups and research institutions on equal terms; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10b. Encourages Member States to adapt defence procurement procedures by splitting suitable tenders into smaller functional lots, using proportionate financial guarantees and avoiding requirements that only large legacy contractors can meet; stresses that contracting authorities should justify cases where SME participation is excluded despite the existence of relevant SME solutions on the market; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10c. Notes the importance of allowing SMEs to qualify through on-site audits rather than by demonstrating full past performance, in order to facilitate their participation in the European defence industrial base; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10d. Notes that SMEs face significant barriers to accessing EU defence funds and are often excluded from large-scale procurement dominated by legacy contractors; encourages, therefore, the creation of specific mechanisms to support SME onboarding by reducing administrative burdens, introducing direct-funding instruments with tolerance for failure, and providing opportunities for mini-grants and rapid-funding tools essential for SMEs, while ensuring fair conditions through proportionate consortium requirements, reasonable guarantees and flexible payment terms; encourages the inclusion of start-ups and research organisations in procurement processes; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10e. Recognises that 80 % of the European industry involved in the development, manufacture and operation of light drones consists of SMEs, which are essential for R&D and innovation in drone technology and for a swift response to unexpected changes in the industry, as demonstrated in Ukraine, and that these companies face difficulties in obtaining financing for their projects; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment10f. Calls on the Commission to establish a single contact point to inform and assist EU drone manufacturing SMEs in obtaining and accessing financing, given that their business structure makes it difficult for them to bear the bureaucratic burden associated with these processes; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution11. Welcomes the opening of direct EU equity investments to defence start-ups, as well as the Scaleup Europe Fund and the Defence Equity Facility 2.0; calls on the Commission to ensure that these instruments also cover defence-first companies; | Amendment11. Welcomes the opening of direct EU equity investments to defence start-ups, as well as the Scaleup Europe Fund and the Defence Equity Facility 2.0; calls on the Commission to ensure that these instruments also cover defence-first companies; insists that investment through these instruments must be subject to strict beneficial ownership verification requirements and must categorically exclude investors from countries listed as foreign adversaries under EU or Member State security legislation, notably Russia, Belarus, Iran, and the People's Republic of China; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution11. Welcomes the opening of direct EU equity investments to defence start-ups, as well as the Scaleup Europe Fund and the Defence Equity Facility 2.0; calls on the Commission to ensure that these instruments also cover defence-first companies; | Amendment11. Welcomes the opening of Union direct equity to defence startups, as well as the Scaleup Europe Fund and the Defence Equity Facility 2.0; calls on the Commission to ensure these instruments also cover defence-first companies and not only dual-use ones; calls on Member States to establish national sovereign funds with defence-first investment mandates and to encourage institutional investors, including pension funds and insurers to increase their allocation to defence venture capital; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment11a. Encourages the EDA and Commission to support further synergy between civilian and military cooperation with joint R&D investments designed to create a “spillover” of technologies to the civil sector that can be deployable in civil emergencies; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; | Amendment12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate, because domestic pension funds and institutional investors have historically excluded defence from their investment policies; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates, enabling European capital to reach European defence companies before they are acquired by or become dependent on non-EU investors; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; | Amendment12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to develop national innovation procurement mechanisms that provide first contracts to local SMEs and new defence actors; calls on the Commission to provide targeted financial support to smaller Member States to help them develop, test and deploy innovative defence solutions; |
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| Motion for a resolution12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; | Amendment12. Emphasises how important it is to ensure access to capital for European defence and dual-use companies at all stages of development; highlights the fact that foreign direct investment screening mechanisms ought to protect the EU’s security interests without creating disproportionate administrative barriers or unnecessary legal uncertainty; emphasises how important such a system is for SMEs, defence start-ups and companies making dual-use products; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; | Amendment12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States and the European Commission to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; further calls on the Member States to tighten FDI rules for any defence and dual-use innovative start-ups and scale-ups; |
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| Motion for a resolution12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; | Amendment12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities such as strategic autonomy and resilience within institutional investment mandates so that domestic capital can be mobilised to support the scale-up of European defence innovators; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec
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| Motion for a resolution12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; calls on the Member States to reframe defence investment as contributing to EU common priorities within institutional investment mandates; | Amendment12. Is concerned that European defence companies are forced to sell to non-EU investors or relocate; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment12a. Recommends incentivising EDF grants to ensure: |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmenta) that competitions give vendors extra points to companies sourcing components from the EU; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentb) that tenders are open to select third countries such as Ukraine and third countries with Strategic Partnership Agreements with the EU; |
| Motion for a resolution | Amendmentc) staff-to-staff exchanges on the sourcing of components; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment12b. Calls on the EDA to assess vendors on their operational impact and cost-efficiency in completing mission objectives rather than focusing solely on unit price; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; | Amendment13. Notes in this regard that many EU-funded defence research projects risk ending at the prototype stage because there is no clear pathway from development to procurement and calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment; underlines the importance of the ECF in enabling spin-in and spin-out activities between civilian and defence research and innovation; stresses the need for coherence across all Union funding instruments so that companies face a single and accessible framework rather than a fragmented landscape of overlapping programmes; calls in this regard on the Commission to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes, and NATO innovation programmes are complementary and that information on available opportunities, testing facilities, and support services is centralised and easily accessible to new defence actors and SMEs; |
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| Motion for a resolution13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; | Amendment13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; stresses, in this regard, the importance of ensuring a geographically balanced distribution of support across the Union and of strengthening defence innovation and industrial ecosystems on the EU's eastern flank; calls on the Commission, in the implementation of ECF award procedures, to provide appropriate incentives, including award-score bonuses or increased funding rates, for cross-border consortia involving at least one company established in an eastern border region of the Union particularly affected by the security consequences of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, with a view to enhancing the resilience, competitiveness and strategic preparedness of the EDTIB; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; | Amendment13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; stresses that industry needs a clear 5–10 year view of EU and Member State capability priorities in order to invest in people, infrastructure, certification and production capacity; calls further for the ECF to provide targeted and preferential access for SMEs and new defence actors, including through dedicated SME calls, simplified procedures and, where appropriate, meaningful SME participation requirements in consortia; underlines further that the objective of EU-NATO coordination should be the rapid delivery of interoperable capabilities, avoiding duplicative development where viable allied solutions already exist; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; | Amendment13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; stresses that industry needs a clear 5–10 year view of EU and Member State capability priorities in order to invest in people, infrastructure, certification and production capacity; calls on the Commission and Member States to publish and regularly update multi-year capability roadmaps as part of their defence planning; underlines further that the objective of EU-NATO coordination should be the rapid delivery of interoperable capabilities, avoiding duplicative development where viable allied solutions already exist; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec, Engin Eroglu
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| Motion for a resolution13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; | Amendment13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are coherent with EU CARD and NATO NDPPs; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; | Amendment13. Calls on the Commission to design the defence component of the ECF as a coherent pipeline linking defence research to industrial deployment and common procurement, and to ensure that national initiatives, EU-funded programmes and NATO innovation programmes are complementary; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment13a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the defence component of the ECF supports not only final products, but also critical components, sub-systems and enabling technologies that are essential for the Union’s capacity to increase production under crisis or conflict conditions; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment13b. Calls on the Commission to facilitate broader participation of SMEs, start-ups, research centres and industrial actors from Member States facing the most immediate security challenges; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment13c. Calls on the Commission to design EU defence innovation pipelines in a way that takes into account manufacturing capacity, access to critical inputs, workforce availability, quality control, maintenance requirements and potential surge capacity before projects move from demonstration to wider deployment; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution14. Welcomes the quadrupling of the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) defence financing; calls on the EIB Group to expand its intermediated lending partnerships and working capital instruments across all Member States, particularly those on the eastern flank; | Amendment14. Welcomes the quadrupling of EIB defence financing; calls on the EIB Group to expand its intermediated lending partnerships and working capital instruments across all Member States, in particular those on the Eastern Flank with heightened security needs but less developed financial ecosystems; calls on the EIB to ensure that its guarantee and venture debt products are accessible to early-stage defence companies that do not yet have an established position in supply chains; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Welcomes the role that the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) will play as a new multilateral lending institution in the defence sector; recognises the DSRB as a legally innovative and geopolitically strategic initiative to finance defence, security and resilience; recognises the benefits this will bring to the SME's from members of the DSRB, particularly: the mobilisation of 5–8x sovereign capital via AAA bond issuance, partnerships with national and commercial banks to unlock supply-chain credit, the easing of Basel IV constraints, ensuring liquidity flows to SMEs, reducing of inflation by stabilising finance and smoothing demand and strengthening allied resilience across NATO, EU, and Indo-Pacific partners; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Calls on the Commission, the European Investment Bank Group and the Member States to prioritise support for emerging defence industrial ecosystems in eastern flank Member States, with a focus on Black Sea region, in order to strengthen the geographical balance of the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, enhance military mobility and increase the Union’s capacity to scale innovative defence solutions close to areas of strategic relevance; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Calls on AMLA and competent authorities to ensure that the application of the EU AML/CFT rules by the banking sector supports streamlined onboarding procedures and avoids unnecessary administrative burdens or blanket de-risking of legitimate defence sector companies, in particular SMEs, while preserving effective compliance and a robust risk-based approach; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Calls on the Commission, the European Investment Bank and national promotional institutions to facilitate access to financing for defence and dual-use technologies, including by providing greater legal certainty for investors and financial institutions supporting projects that contribute to European security and resilience; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Stresses that Member States situated on the Union’s eastern flank face particularly acute security threats and should benefit from targeted access to EU instruments supporting defence innovation, testing infrastructure, dual-use production capacity and SME participation in the EDTIB; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Calls on Member States, in cooperation with the EIB Group, to examine tax incentives, co-investment schemes and procurement-backed financing mechanisms that mobilise private capital for defence start-ups and SMEs, instead of encouraging companies to wait for successive grant calls; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Welcomes the European Innovation Council's (EIC) decision to open EIC Accelerator and STEP Scaleup funding to dual-use start-ups and SMEs, including for the first time direct equity investment in defence companies with EIC STEP Defence Scale Up call; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14a. Notes, however, that increased defence spending will not result in increased defence capabilities without a single market for defence which promises efficiency gains of up to 30%; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen public credit guarantees for lenders financing the European defence industry, including SMEs and start-ups, in order to de-risk private lending, improve bankability and crowd in additional private capital; stresses that such guarantees should be based on balanced risk-sharing between public authorities, promotional banks and private financial institutions; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14b. Calls on the EIB Group to expand financial products addressing the specific cash-flow needs of defence SMEs and start-ups, including bridge financing, production loans and guarantees for companies that have secured public-sector defence contracts but require additional capital to scale production; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14b. Calls for greater interoperability of innovative defence systems across the Union through common standards, streamlined certification procedures and the reduction of unnecessary regulatory fragmentation, thereby facilitating cross-border market access for European defence innovators; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14c. Stresses that access to finance must also be improved through better liquidity conditions across the defence supply chain; calls, therefore, for shorter and more predictable payment terms in public defence contracts, enabling prime contractors to provide earlier payments to suppliers; further calls for the wider use and lower cost of reverse factoring and other supply-chain finance instruments, where appropriate, so that SMEs can access working capital on the basis of the creditworthiness of prime contractors; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment14c. Stresses that defence readiness requires both disruptive innovation and reliable industrial capacity; calls for EU funding programmes to recognise the costs borne by large defence manufacturers in maintaining surge capacity, secure facilities, classified production lines, and supplier networks, particularly in Member States facing the most direct security threats; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; notes with concern that for defence, aerospace, AI, cyber and dual-use technologies, the cost of certification, security assessment, testing and qualification can be as high as, or higher than, the original development cost; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; calls furthermore on the Commission to ensure that successful certification and testing create a credible and predictable path to public procurement, so that certification is not an isolated administrative milestone but is directly linked to follow-on acquisition; |
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications, testing results and security accreditation procedures across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to assess options for legally binding measures supporting mutual recognition mechanisms, in order to avoid unnecessary duplicative procedures and accelerate the fielding of innovative defence solutions, while preserving the right of Member States to impose justified additional testing, certification or security requirements; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; notes with concern that for defence, aerospace, AI, cyber and dual-use technologies, the cost of certification, security assessment, testing and qualification can be as high as, or higher than, the original development cost; calls furthermore on the Commission to ensure that successful certification and testing create a credible and predictable path to public procurement, so that certification is not an isolated administrative milestone but is directly linked to follow-on acquisition; |
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures without prejudice to any additional testing that may be necessary to address Member States' specific climatic, seasonal and operational conditions; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Calls on the EU to work with Member States on a better coordination and on a mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Member States, the Commission and the EDA in consultation with the industry to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; |
Özlem Demirel, Lynn Boylan
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Notes that the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU must not lead to a test-once principle as this entails the danger of a race to the bottom to the lowest common denominator with regards to testing procedures in the EU; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission and the EDA to evaluate and develop legally binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; | Amendment15. Deplores the absence of permanent mutual recognition of defence product certifications across the EU; calls on the Commission to propose a Regulation with binding measures for a test-once principle in order to avoid duplicative national testing procedures; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15a. Calls on Member States to develop pre-certification assistance for SMEs, with the support of the EDA where appropriate including vouchers, advisory support and shared test-preparation services for qualification, security assessment and certification costs, provided that such support is linked to identified demand from at least one potential public buyer; stresses that support should cover the critical scale-up stages between TRL 5 and TRL 8, including real-environment testing, operational validation and, where applicable, certification or interoperability assessment in line with relevant NATO standards; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15a. Calls on the Commission and the EDA, in cooperation with willing Member States, to examine simplified and accelerated codification, qualification and admission-to-service pathways for fast-developing technologies such as drones (air, ground and maritime), electronic warfare systems, counter-UAS solutions and AI-enabled support tools, while fully respecting safety, security, classified information and national operational requirements; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15a. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious Regulations on intra-EU transfers and on a single certification scheme, and work with NATO to move towards the codification in EU law of defence standards to ensure interoperability of equipment while developing EU standards where relevant; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15a. Calls for the expansion of certified testing grounds for training on and integration of emerging defence capabilities, where industry and armed forces can rapidly co-develop, test and iterate solutions in operational conditions; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15b. Calls on the Commission to provide adequate financing for capacity and infrastructure building of these sites to achieve their optimal innovation potential; encourages the inclusion of SMEs and start-ups to accelerate R&D to strengthen Europe’s technological edge; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15c. Recognises that the gradual integration of drone capabilities into multinational units, such as the recent incorporation of a counter-drone element into NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence brigade in Latvia, serve as a model for future force development; calls for greater use of existing certified testing grounds for training and integration; stresses that operators require access to secure ranges, simulation environments and live-fire exercises to train in swarm tactics, counter-UAS and autonomous targeting; notes that joint European centres, drawing on the Canada-led Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battalion’s operational experience with drones on the eastern flank, would enhance cross-country training options, interoperability, doctrinal convergence and efficiency across the EU; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15d. Encourages the Member States, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the EDA to streamline certification and airworthiness standards to speed up integration and reduce duplication in testing and credentialling; notes that adoption of EMARs and cross-certification is a must; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15e. Recommends the co-financing of regular training and technical expertise development across service academies and military colleges via the EDA with coordination from the European Security and Defence College, which sponsors technical capability-building blocks via joint training that prioritise key areas such as human swarm interfaces, swarm intelligence algorithms, edge computing, secure datalinks, multi-viable programmes/platforms, simulation of experimentation platforms for AI tactical development, and simulations that optimise threat sequencing and weapon efficiency, ensuring that such activities will be aligned with NATO training standards and contribute to common European capability-building and interoperability objectives, including the incorporation of AI, robotics and aerospace technologies, in order to enhance competitiveness; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15e. Calls on the EASA to speed up ‘permits to fly’ application processing and define clear certification criteria for HALE/MALE-class systems in conjunction with NATO; stresses the urgent need to designate a sufficient number of auditors and streamline procedures to avoid unnecessary delays in innovation; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15f. Calls for the adoption of a European framework for the rapid authorisation of border crossing and transit of UAS/drone equipment among Member States in the context of military mobility; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15g. Emphasises the need for drone and C-UAS testing, production and training, with the aim of strengthening the external borders and deterring hybrid aggression and calls for the establishment of national hubs for drone testing, certification and interoperability across the EU; Emphasises that such hubs would facilitate the testing and certification of UAS and C-UAS systems in line with EU and NATO standards; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15i. Encourages the Commission, in consultation with the Member States, to simplify regulations for unpopulated test areas to enable testing in line with common safety standards; encourages the incorporation of AI-enabled simulation and real-world exercises to ensure technology readiness and doctrinal relevance; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15j. Recommends the financing and building of an EDA managed ‘defence metaverse’ for simulated drone combat (naval and aerial), beginning with particle-based simulations and then moving towards high-resolution environments; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15k. Recommends the development and frequent evaluation of intelligent coordination strategies for drone swarms using simulation environments supported by high performance computing; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment15l. Emphasises the need for stronger civil-military airspace coordination, notably through the integration of drones into U-space corridors under the Single European Sky initiative; supports the expansion of joint simulation and interception exercises involving civilian, law enforcement and military actors to enhance preparedness for multi-domain threats; underlines that such exercises should be conducted on an annual mandatory basis to ensure sustained readiness and interoperability; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution16. Welcomes NATO’s Rapid Adoption Action Plan and its proposed use of Innovation Badges to build trust in tested products; calls for the EU to recognise these badges within its own instruments and on willing Member States to conclude agreements on the mutual recognition of defence testing and certification results; | Amendment16. Welcomes NATO’s Rapid Adoption Action Plan, including its objective of accelerating adoption of new technological products, in most cases within 24 months, and its proposed use of Innovation Badges to build trust in tested products; calls on the EU to recognise these badges within its own instruments, supplementing them with an EU-level certification framework that builds on rather than duplicates NATO's work and suggests that such a framework could initially focus on technology domains where common standards are more readily achievable, such as cyber systems, software, sensors and communications equipment; calls on willing Member States to conclude agreements on mutual recognition of defence testing and certification results; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution16. Welcomes NATO’s Rapid Adoption Action Plan and its proposed use of Innovation Badges to build trust in tested products; calls for the EU to recognise these badges within its own instruments and on willing Member States to conclude agreements on the mutual recognition of defence testing and certification results; | Amendment16. Welcomes NATO’s Rapid Adoption Action Plan and its proposed use of Innovation Badges to build trust in tested products; calls for the EU to recognise these badges within its own instruments and on willing Member States to conclude agreements on the mutual recognition of defence testing and certification results, as long as the eligibility rules of each instrument are respected; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment16a. Encourages Member States, where necessary, to consider practical guidances of the NATO Rapid Adoption Service, DIANA and Innovation Badges as supporting evidence in national acquisition processes; stresses that such tools may help shorten due diligence, testing and validation where relevant, but should not replace national assessment procedures, create an additional administrative layer or prejudice Member States’ final procurement decisions; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment16a. Calls on the Commission and the EDA to develop, together with willing Member States and, where appropriate, in coordination with NATO, a common approach to trusted testing, certification and security accreditation for innovative defence products, without prejudice to Member States’ national security responsibilities; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment16a. Calls on the EDA to develop multilingual, standardised operator certification pathways across all Member States; Encourage modular system architectures, so components (e.g. payloads radios and cameras) can be upgraded independently without full platform re-certification; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution17. Calls on large defence companies receiving EU funding to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns; | Amendment17. Calls on the Member States to explore incentives for large companies procuring from defence start-ups and SMEs, to open their testing facilities to smaller companies on fair commercial terms; calls on large defence companies receiving EU funding to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and for the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns and ensure testing facilities across EU and NATO networks are accessible to EU-funded programme participants, recalling that smaller Member States often offer testing facilities for specific capability niches; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution17. Calls on large defence companies receiving EU funding to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns; | Amendment17. Calls on large defence companies receiving EU or national funding to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns and to consider the creation of European testing facilities open to all EU-funded SMEs; |
Nathalie Loiseau, Marjan Šarec, Engin Eroglu
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| Motion for a resolution17. Calls on large defence companies receiving EU funding to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns; | Amendment17. Calls on large defence companies receiving EU funding to open, on a voluntary basis and provided the commercial sensitiveness of information is not put at risk, their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution17. Calls on large defence companies receiving EU funding to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns; | Amendment17. Calls on large defence companies engaging in integration partnerships to open their testing facilities to SMEs and start-ups and on the Commission and the EDA to scale up operational experimentation campaigns; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment17a. Urges the creation of a Three Seas Defence Innovation Hub headquartered in Romania, functioning as the primary technological anchor for the Union’s Eastern Flank; insists that this Hub be specifically tasked with bridging the gap between non-traditional defence actors and military procurement to co-develop, scale, and deploy next-generation autonomous maritime drones, underwater surveillance systems, and electronic warfare capabilities precisely tailored to the contested environment of the Black Sea theatre; highlights that the proposed Three Seas Defence Innovation Hub and the Black Sea Security Hub should operate in a complementary manner, with the Black Sea Security Hub identifying operational requirements, capability gaps and lessons learned from the regional security environment, while the Three Seas Defence Innovation Hub develops, tests, scales and supports the procurement of innovative solutions responding to those needs; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment17a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise the importance of testing drones and new technological developments in large open spaces, in order to ensure the safety, efficiency and effectiveness of such innovations; urges the Commission and the Member States to reduce unnecessary red tape and bureaucratic burdens, streamline testing procedures and facilitate the rapid deployment and evaluation of emerging drone technologies; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment17a. Underlines that for SMEs, and consequently for the good functioning of the EU defence market, testing is necessary to enable technological validation and provide credibility of the tested products; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment17b. Stresses that testing is necessary to facilitate investments, as both investors and public authorities are likely to invest more in products that have already been tested and that are demonstrated successful; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment17b. Encourages joint initiatives to ensure rapid access to testing infrastructure by reforming outdated regulatory barriers or outsourcing testing to enable trials in conditions replicating operational environments; |
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| Motion for a resolution18. Stresses that effective defence testing and evaluation require not only physical facilities but also a functioning ecosystem, and that priority should be given to the creation of instruments and infrastructure through which new defence actors can receive iterative feedback from national armed forces; | Amendment18. Stresses that effective defence testing and evaluation require not only physical facilities but also a functioning ecosystem, and that priority should be given to the creation of instruments and infrastructure through which new defence actors can receive iterative feedback from national armed forces; calls on the Commission to ensure that dedicated funding for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure also supports SMEs, start-ups and new defence actors in accessing test ranges, conducting field trials, meeting safety requirements, undergoing certification-related testing and carrying out operational demonstrations, particularly where such costs constitute a disproportionate barrier to bringing innovative products from prototype stage to operational readiness; further calls, where appropriate, for greater coordination and mutual recognition of certification-related procedures among Member States; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution18. Stresses that effective defence testing and evaluation require not only physical facilities but also a functioning ecosystem, and that priority should be given to the creation of instruments and infrastructure through which new defence actors can receive iterative feedback from national armed forces; | Amendment18. Stresses that effective defence testing and evaluation requires not just physical facilities but a functioning ecosystem connecting military operators, companies, and evaluation expertise in continuous interaction; recognises the complexity of separate national defence markets as a key bottleneck for SMEs seeking iterative feedback during product development; stresses that a priority should be the creation of instruments and infrastructure where new defence actors can receive iterative feedback from national armed forces and that successful iterative development should be followed up by real contracts; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18a. Calls for EU-supported testing and experimentation campaigns to involve, where appropriate, military users, commanders, maintenance personnel and procurement authorities from an early stage in order to insure effective operational experimentation assessing tactical relevance, doctrinal implications, logistical sustainability and interoperability on top of technical performance; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18a. Stresses the importance of strengthening a European network of defence testing, validation and experimentation facilities, including facilities in Member States located on the Union’s eastern and northern borders, in order to provide realistic operating environments for emerging defence technologies; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18a. Urges the Commission and the Member States, together with NATO, to launch a six-month EU-NATO pilot to form, certify and validate initial company-level combat drone units for deployment with allied brigades, with a requirement to publish the pilot validation report and recommended follow-on actions; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18a. Recognizes that continuous testing cycles are important, due to the rapid tactical and electronical changes occurring in modern warfare; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18b. Calls for immediate funding and rapid implementation of combat drone units, both anti-tank and anti-personnel, across NATO and EU armed forces at company, battalion and brigade levels, and for these to be organically embedded within combat units across Europe; requests that Ukraine be included as a full operational and doctrinal partner in the development, training and certification process; urges the Commission and the High Representative to devise a two-year accelerated programme for procurement, training, sustainment and certification; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18b. Calls on the Commission, the EDA and willing Member States to support structured operational feedback loops connecting military users, testing facilities, procurement authorities and innovative companies, so that lessons from exercises, operational experimentation and deployment can be translated more rapidly into product improvements, requirement updates and procurement decisions; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment18b. Highlights the growing strategic importance of the Arctic and northern regions for European security; underlines the value of supporting defence innovation ecosystems with expertise in Arctic conditions, resilience, communications, mobility and situational awareness in challenging environments; |
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| Motion for a resolution19. Notes the nine capability coalitions established under the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030; calls on the Commission and the EDA to ensure that each coalition includes a dedicated testing and demonstration component open to start-ups and SMEs; | Amendment19. Notes the nine capability coalitions established under the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030; calls on the Commission and the EDA to ensure that each coalition includes a dedicated testing and demonstration component open to start-ups and SMEs; emphasises how important it is to ensure swift, predictable access to test areas, shooting ranges and other necessary infrastructure, in particular for testing with live ammunition; therefore calls on the Member States to expand access to state testing, demonstration and validation facilities and to facilitate the establishment of private testing facilities; highlights the fact that swift and iterative testing, validation and operational evaluation in realistic conditions are a fundamental prerequisite for turning innovation into genuine military capabilities and for ensuring that European defence technologies can develop at the same pace as the evolving threat landscape; emphasises that regulatory frameworks and permit-granting procedures should be designed to enable and reward the iterative development and recurrent testing of successive versions of new defence technologies, so that technological improvements and updates can be tested without each iteration requiring an entirely new permit-granting process; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution19. Notes the nine capability coalitions established under the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030; calls on the Commission and the EDA to ensure that each coalition includes a dedicated testing and demonstration component open to start-ups and SMEs; | Amendment19. Notes that the nine Capability Coalitions established under the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 define the EU's priority capability needs but still lack a systematic link to accessible testing infrastructure for innovative companies; calls on the Commission and the EDA to ensure that each coalition includes a dedicated testing and demonstration component open to start-ups and SMEs; supports the approach of smaller Member States offering specialised testing facilities in niche capability areas where they have emerging strengths; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar
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| Motion for a resolution19. Notes the nine capability coalitions established under the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030; calls on the Commission and the EDA to ensure that each coalition includes a dedicated testing and demonstration component open to start-ups and SMEs; | Amendment19. Notes the nine capability coalitions established under the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030; calls on the EDA to ensure that each coalition includes a dedicated testing and demonstration component open to start-ups and SMEs; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment19a. Encourages the Member States and the EDA to streamline certification and airworthiness standards to speed up integration and reduce duplication in testing and credentialling; encourages the EDIP and other financial instruments to prioritise the financing of regional drone manufacturing and C-UAS innovation hubs with shared infrastructure and regulatory fast-tracking, particularly among front line states; emphasises the importance of promoting fair labour practices, social protection and skills development for a high-quality workforce, while also supporting local communities and SMEs, with a focus on creating sustainable employment opportunities; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment19a. Calls on Member States, with the support of the EDA where necessary, to explore voluntary arrangements for integration and interoperability testing between selected unmanned, counter-unmanned, cyber, electronic-warfare and AI-enabled systems, with the aim of turning tested technologies into integrated, operationally validated and deployable platforms that can be procured and scaled, rather than remaining limited to standalone technical demonstrations; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment19a. Calls on the Commission, the EDA and the Member States to give due consideration, within relevant EU defence innovation instruments, to electronic warfare, spectrum resilience, counter-UAS systems, affordable missile and drones interceptors, secure communications, anti-jamming technologies and related enabling technologies and capabilities as priority areas for testing, experimentation, procurement and scale-up; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment19a. Notes the importance of creating dedicated centres of excellence as a means of developing, refining and scaling-up new prototype defence equipment into deployable capabilities across all defence domains, with particular focus on drone technology; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment19b. Calls on the Commission, the EDA and the Member States to develop, where appropriate, accelerated and proportionate assurance frameworks for AI-enabled defence systems, addressing operational effectiveness, cybersecurity, data integrity, interoperability and appropriate human oversight, while avoiding unnecessary delays, duplication of national procedures or excessive administrative burdens for low-risk, non-sensitive or support applications; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment19b. Calls for dedicated support for SMEs to access these financial instruments, including simplified application procedures and award criteria; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution20. Calls on the Commission to allocate dedicated funding under the next multiannual financial framework for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure, including equipment, methodologies and the expansion of facilities; | Amendment20. Calls on the Commission to allocate dedicated funding under the next MFF for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure, including equipment, methodologies, and expansion of facilities for permanent local innovation ranges, with the goal of significantly expanding capacity and reducing costs, including through a voucher-based systems; stresses that defence testing facilities should be co-located where possible with regional defence innovation clusters to support the growth of defence and dual-use technology ecosystems across the Union; calls on the Commission to consider EU skills funding to help retain defence innovation expertise, including retired military personnel, within national innovation ecosystems; |
Lynn Boylan, Özlem Demirel
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| Motion for a resolution20. Calls on the Commission to allocate dedicated funding under the next multiannual financial framework for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure, including equipment, methodologies and the expansion of facilities; | Amendment20. Calls on the Commission to allocate dedicated funding under the next multiannual financial framework for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure, including equipment, methodologies and the expansion of facilities; calls on the Commission to exclude any projects which include the production of weapons which would violate international arms control conventions, including the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Ottawa Convention; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution20. Calls on the Commission to allocate dedicated funding under the next multiannual financial framework for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure, including equipment, methodologies and the expansion of facilities; | Amendment20. Calls on the Commission, the European Parliament and Member States to allocate dedicated funding under the next multiannual financial framework for defence testing and evaluation infrastructure, including equipment, methodologies and the expansion of facilities; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20a. Encourages the Member States and Ukraine to jointly train and certify drone pilots with standards equivalent to artillery or unmanned aerial vehicle operators, invest in counter-drone systems – hard-kill and soft-kill alike – at all echelons, reassess armour survivability, ensure tanks and armoured personnel carriers are modified to counter unmanned aerial vehicles; expand EW units to ensure all battalions have hardening of jamming capabilities and establish drone defence zones around critical infrastructure; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to recognise Initial Operational Capability (IOC) as a standard intermediate phase in the defence innovation cycle, allowing innovative technologies to enter limited operational use, receive iterative feedback from armed forces and scale gradually, rather than being required to wait for a fully finalised product before any procurement can take place; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to recognise Initial Operational Capability (IOC) as a standard intermediate phase in the defence innovation cycle, allowing innovative technologies to enter limited operational use, receive iterative feedback from armed forces and scale gradually, rather than being required to wait for a fully finalised product before any procurement can take place; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20a. Stresses that EU-supported testing and evaluation infrastructure should, where appropriate, include capabilities to assess systems under realistic electronic warfare, jamming, spoofing, cyber, secure communications and counter-drone conditions, in order to ensure that innovative technologies are resilient against foreseeable hostile action; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20a. Calls for the establishment of additional defence innovation, testing and validation hubs in eastern flank Member States, including in the Black Sea region, in order to accelerate the transition from prototype to deployable capability and strengthen Europe's defence industrial base across all regions of the Union; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20b. Calls on the Commission and the EDA, in cooperation with the Member States, to promote supply-chain resilience assessments for selected emerging defence technologies, in particular drones, electronic warfare systems, secure communications, AI-enabled systems and counter-UAS solutions, with a view to identifying critical dependencies and possible mitigation measures; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20c. Encourages investment in the creation of effective, efficient and EW-resistant matrix wireless data transmission communication methods, in order to allow for effective C2 on a battlefield expected to be flooded with unmanned flying vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles which require effective wireless data to function; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20d. Stresses that testing and evaluation infrastructure for innovative defence technologies should include scenarios reflecting hybrid threats against critical infrastructure, defence industry facilities, transport networks, ports, military bases, airspace and satellite navigation systems; calls for closer links between defence innovation, critical infrastructure protection and civil-military resilience; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20d. Calls on the Commission and the EDA to prioritise the integration of the GOVSATCOM and IRIS² programmes for reliable, secure and cost-effective satellite communications supporting EU defence missions and drone C2 links; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20e. Urges targeted EDF investment in low-latency, high-bandwidth satellite terminals and resilient communications payloads to ensure real-time data transmission and protection against interference, interception and jamming; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20f. Encourages EDF and EDIP support for unified, secure architectures using AI and cloud-based data fusion to enable coordinated, real-time multi-platform operations while ensuring human oversight and cybersecurity; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20b. Stresses the need for iterative development and testing of drone systems to ensure their adaptability and responsiveness to emerging threats, given the rapid pace of technological advancements in this field; underlines the importance of software-defined systems that can be quickly modified and updated to address the evolving needs of the battlefield, thereby enabling armed forces to stay ahead of potential adversaries and maintain a competitive edge in this domain; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20c. Calls on the Commission to consider dedicated support under the next multiannual financial framework for testing ranges, operational experimentation facilities and dual-use infrastructure in eastern flank regions, in particular where such investments contribute to EU defence readiness, military mobility, border resilience and rapid industrial scale-up; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution | AmendmentEuropean preference |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20b. Stresses that an autonomous European pillar within NATO is incompatible with the non-duplication principle, as the latter reinforces industrial dependence rather than a balanced transatlantic alliance; encourages Member States to favour European alternatives in their procurement and research in order to enable the emergence of new actors in capability areas where industrial capacity in Europe is limited or non-existent, especially for ballistic missiles, missile defence systems and interceptors; underlines that the derogations from the European preference for such weapon systems provided for in multiple EU defence instruments were a missed opportunity, as they reinforced this dependence where they could instead have enabled the scaling-up of new European industrial actors; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment20a. Stresses that a strong European preference in joint debt issuance and EU defence instruments is essential to allow new domestic actors to scale up and to strengthen the resilience of the EDTIB; stresses that such European preference is of the utmost importance for emerging and disruptive products, as their supply chains are currently dominated by third countries that have been increasingly willing to leverage export controls and other restrictions against the Union, thereby threatening the long-term and large-scale adoption of these technologies by the Member States’ armed forces; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolutionIntellectual property | AmendmentIntellectual property, skills and human capital |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; | Amendment21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; stresses that innovative companies are often required to disclose sensitive technologies before patentability, ownership and IP strategy are secured, thereby weakening their negotiating position and increasing the risk of losing European know-how; calls on the Commission together with Member States to introduce an IP-first entry stage supporting fast patentability checks and initial IP protection before companies disclose sensitive technologies in programme applications or consortia; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; | Amendment21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; further calls on the Commission to adopt complementary rules ensuring that intellectual property developed under EU-funded defence programmes cannot be transferred, licensed or co-developed with entities from third countries of concern, including through indirect shareholding structures, without prior approval by the competent national authority and notification to the Commission; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; | Amendment21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners and to provide IPR education and advisory services as a standard component of EU defence innovation support; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; | Amendment21. Underlines the importance of protecting intellectual property from the earliest stages of defence innovation; calls on the Commission to establish an IP-first support mechanism providing rapid patentability assessments, freedom-to-operate checks, IP strategy advice, ownership guidance, confidentiality support and initial protection before companies disclose sensitive technologies in EU applications or collaborative projects; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for new defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners; | Amendment21. Underlines the importance of intellectual property protection for defence actors; calls on the Commission to ensure that intellectual property rights regimes in EU defence programmes protect small innovators from appropriation by consortium partners and guarantee that the ownership of collaboratively generated results remains with the consortium partners; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment21a. Encourages the Member States to pursue a regulatory environment and procurement processes that coordinates and integrates the current European ecosystem with strategic partners such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Japan, particularly where they bring needed critical capabilities and raw materials, emphasising joint development in propulsion, electronic warfare (EW), laser development and mission critical software; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; | Amendment22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; emphasises that SMEs and new defence actors must be treated as technology owners and capability providers with fair and equal access to programmes, integrators and public buyers, and not merely as subcontractors; calls on the Commission to provide more single-beneficiary funding options and reduce the administrative burden for SMEs applying to EU defence programmes; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; | Amendment22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; further calls on the Commission to require that subcontracting to SMEs and start-ups under EU-funded consortia be in areas of genuine technological innovation rather than ancillary support services, ensuring that prime contractors cannot fulfil subcontracting obligations through commercial off-the-shelf procurement or low-technology supply relationships; |
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| Motion for a resolution22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; | Amendment22. Calls on the Commission to develop a procurement system that enables start-ups and innovative SMEs to grow from prototyping to serial production and independent market presence; emphasises that the objective should not only be to integrate innovative companies as subcontractors of established prime contractors, but to create the conditions in which the next generation of European defence companies can emerge and compete as autonomous players; |
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| Motion for a resolution22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; | Amendment22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups and innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia, including through transparent cross-border subcontracting opportunities, supplier-matching and industrial cooperation arrangements, while ensuring fair competition, protection of intellectual property and the security interests of the Union and its Member States; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; | Amendment22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; stresses the need for robust due diligence measures to ensure that companies participating in EU defence programmes do not contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States; |
Engin Eroglu, Hilde Vautmans, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius
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| Motion for a resolution22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with start-ups, including through mandatory subcontracting thresholds for innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia; | Amendment22. Calls on the Commission to expand mechanisms to incentivise prime contractors to work with SMEs and start-ups, including through integration partnerships or bonuses for subcontracting for innovative SMEs and start-ups in EU-funded defence consortia; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22a. Calls on the Commission to encourage better cooperation between prime contractors, start-ups and innovative SMEs in EU-funded defence consortia, including through transparent consortium access, fair partnership conditions and incentives for meaningful SME participation; emphasises that SMEs and new defence actors must be treated as technology owners and capability providers with fair and equal access to programmes, integrators and public buyers, and not merely as subcontractors; calls on the Commission to make better use of existing funding instruments and to reduce the administrative burden for SMEs applying to EU defence programmes, without imposing mandatory subcontracting thresholds or interfering with contractual freedom; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU-funded consortia involving prime contractors provide fair, transparent and proportionate opportunities for SMEs and start-ups from all Member States, including those on the eastern flank, through open interfaces, reasonable access to relevant technical information and safeguards against practices that could prevent future upgrades by innovative suppliers, while fully respecting security requirements, intellectual property rights and the protection of sensitive industrial know-how; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22a. Stresses that the successful deployment of innovative defence technologies depends not only on industrial capacity but also on the availability of highly qualified personnel; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support training, reskilling and upskilling in strategic defence technologies, including artificial intelligence, cyber, quantum technologies, autonomous systems and advanced manufacturing; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22a. Calls for greater synergy between the Chips Act and EU defence funding initiatives through the use of the Act’s Chips for Europe Initiative and the European Semiconductor Board to aid further development of semiconductor manufacturing among the Member States; |
Lucia Annunziata, Yannis Maniatis
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22b. Calls for stronger cooperation between universities, technology centres, trade union organisations, innovation hubs, defence industries, and armed forces in order to develop the skills ecosystem necessary to support European defence innovation and industrial competitiveness; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22b. Calls further for standard contractual clauses in EU-funded consortia protecting SME-owned technology, background intellectual property, licensing terms and fair compensation where a prime contractor commercialises, integrates or scales an SME solution; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22c. Stresses that SMEs and new defence companies from smaller and less represented Member States should effectively take part in EU defence innovation programmes; stresses the need for targeted outreach, simpler access and advisory support, so that these programmes do not benefit only companies from already established defence ecosystems; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22d. Calls on Member States, with the support of the Commission where appropriate to create defence procurement and regulatory sandboxes that allow for flexible pilot contracts, pre-commercial procurement, first series production, pre-financing of materials and closer cooperation between armed forces and industry; emphasises that such sandboxes should also support Capability-as-a-Service models, which are particularly important for AI, software, cyber, ISR, data-driven and autonomous systems where governments require a continuously updated capability rather than a one-off product purchase; stresses that where Capability-as-a-Service models are used, contracting authorities should require clear service-level obligations, data-access rules, cyber-resilience requirements, exit options and safeguards against long-term vendor lock-in; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22e. Stresses that AI-enabled defence capabilities require assessment of the full technology stack and its life cycle, including the origin and control of models, data, weights, training pipelines, tools, updates, retraining, supply-chain changes, cloud or compute dependencies and critical components; calls on the Commission to develop assessment frameworks to identify and mitigate risks arising from non-EU control over critical elements of AI systems used in defence applications, including their ability to continue operating under crisis conditions; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22f. Encourages EU institutions and Member States to establish systematic and regular industry dialogue on capability gaps, technology readiness levels, certification barriers and realistic routes to deployment; calls furthermore on contracting authorities to make greater use of preliminary market consultations before launching formal procurement procedures, in order to understand what industry can realistically deliver and on what timescale; calls for such dialogue to include SMEs with operational deployments below traditional defence procurement scale, including producers of sensors, drones, counter-drone technologies, software, cyber tools and other fast-cycle systems; |
Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment22g. Calls on the Commission to ensure that European intellectual property and critical defence know-how developed with public support remain protected from loss of ownership, forced dependency or value capture outside Europe; calls on the Commission to include binding provisions in EU defence programme rules that prevent publicly supported technologies from being acquired, licensed or made structurally dependent on entities outside the EU without prior authorisation; |
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| Motion for a resolution23. Welcomes successful examples of structured defence innovation cooperation with Ukraine, the inclusion of Ukraine in the SAFE and EDIP instruments and the creation of the BraveTechEU partnership; | Amendment23. Welcomes successful examples of structured defence innovation cooperation with Ukraine, the inclusion of Ukraine in the SAFE and EDIP instruments and the creation of the BraveTechEU partnership; encourages EDF programmes to allow more rapid scaling of SMEs via a series of funding rounds that support early growth and access to capital, product development, testing and evaluation, building on the BraveTech EU initiative; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution23. Welcomes successful examples of structured defence innovation cooperation with Ukraine, the inclusion of Ukraine in the SAFE and EDIP instruments and the creation of the BraveTechEU partnership; | Amendment23. Welcomes successful examples of structured defence innovation cooperation with Ukraine where Member States have established joint ventures or contracts to facilitate technology exchange and the inclusion of Ukrainian know-how into EU military capabilities; welcomes the inclusion of Ukraine in the SAFE and EDIP instruments, the expansion of EDF eligibility for testing in Ukraine, and the creation of the BraveTechEU partnership; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment23a. Welcomes Ukraine’s efforts to de-risk its drone supply chains, a sector in which external dependencies are extreme, notably by localising production for critical components; underlines that Ukraine’s example provides a template for Member States to reduce severe existing external dependencies in emerging and disruptive technologies; stresses that accepting temporarily higher costs for indigenous component alternatives is essential to scaling up domestic and more secure supply chains and shielding the EDTIB from third-country restrictions and pressure; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment23a. Calls on the Commission to explore the establishment of defence procurement and regulatory sandboxes enabling Member States to test innovative procurement models, pilot contracts, pre-commercial procurement, first-series production, pre-financing of critical materials, iterative capability development and flexible acquisition procedures while preserving transparency and accountability; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment23b. Stresses that AI-enabled defence capabilities require assessment of the full technology stack, including the origin and control of models, data, weights, training pipelines, tools and critical dependencies; calls on the Commission to develop assessment frameworks that identify and mitigate risks arising from high risk countries control over critical elements of the AI technology stack used in defence applications; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment23c. Calls on EU institutions and Member States to establish systematic and regular industry dialogue on capability gaps, technology readiness levels, certification barriers and realistic routes to deployment; calls furthermore on contracting authorities to make greater use of preliminary market consultations before launching formal procurement procedures, in order to understand what industry can realistically deliver and on what timescale; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment23d. Calls on the Commission to ensure that European intellectual property and critical defence know-how developed with public support remain protected from loss of ownership, forced dependency or value capture outside Europe; |
Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment23e. Calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage Capability-as-a-Service procurement models, particularly for software-defined, AI-enabled, cyber, ISR, data-driven and autonomous capabilities that require continuous upgrades, maintenance, data, computing resources, security updates and iterative improvement rather than one-off acquisition; |
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| Motion for a resolution24. Underlines that Ukraine’s defence innovation ecosystem operates at an unmatched speed, with iterative cycles of development, battlefield testing and adaptation often measured in weeks; stresses that facilitating European companies’ access to this operational learning, including through joint development and co-production, would serve the EU’s own defence readiness; | Amendment24. Underlines that Ukraine’s defence innovation ecosystem operates at an unmatched speed, with iterative cycles of development, battlefield testing and adaptation often measured in weeks; stresses that facilitating European companies’ access to this operational learning, including through joint development and co-production, would serve the EU’s own defence readiness; emphasises that the EU’s objective should be to translate its core principles into the EU context, in particular the lessons learned on short development cycles, continuous user feedback, iterative development and swift technology uptake; takes the view that this is a prerequisite for strengthening the EU’s defence preparedness and technological competitiveness; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution24. Underlines that Ukraine’s defence innovation ecosystem operates at an unmatched speed, with iterative cycles of development, battlefield testing and adaptation often measured in weeks; stresses that facilitating European companies’ access to this operational learning, including through joint development and co-production, would serve the EU’s own defence readiness; | Amendment24. Underlines that Ukraine's defence innovation ecosystem operates at an unmatched speed, with iterative cycles of development, battlefield testing, and adaptation often measured in weeks; notes that Ukraine's reform of its procurement processes has significantly reduced acquisition times and that the Brave1 initiative has compressed defence certification from years to months; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24a. Recognises that the combat-driven innovation process in Ukraine generates unique operational knowledge about the performance of emerging technologies under real conditions, knowledge that is critical for the EU's ability to develop capabilities that can credibly deter future aggression; stresses that facilitating European companies' access to this operational learning, including through joint development, co-production, and structured feedback from Ukrainian end-users, serves the EU's own defence readiness and should be treated as a strategic priority; calls on the Member States to draw on Ukraine's experience in compressing procurement and certification timelines when reforming their national defence innovation processes; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24a. Calls on the EDA and Member States to draw systematically on lessons learned from Ukrainian defence SMEs and start-ups, in particular their ability to move rapidly from battlefield testing to technological adaptation, serial production and operational deployment under constant financial pressure; stresses that Ukrainian companies have demonstrated short innovation cycles in areas such as drones, counter-drone systems, electronic warfare, software and battlefield data integration; calls for these practices to be assessed, shared with European SMEs and, where appropriate, adapted to the European defence industrial base in order to accelerate the transition from prototype to capability; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24a. Stresses that future EU defence innovation instruments should support not only the development of entirely new technologies, but also the swift, cost-effective upgrade, adaptation and operational enhancement of existing products and technologies, including through software-based modifications, cyber-resilience upgrades, AI-enabled functionalities, integration of civilian technologies for defence purposes and rapid adaptation to evolving battlefield and threat conditions; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24a. Stresses that Ukraine’s experience demonstrates the operational value of short feedback cycles between military users, engineers, manufacturers and procurement authorities; calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw lessons from such models and practices, including in the fields of testing, procurement and capability development; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24a. Calls for the creation of structured mechanisms enabling lessons learned from current operational environments and partner countries to be rapidly integrated into European defence innovation, procurement and capability development processes; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support structured exchanges with Ukrainian experts to get use of their defence innovation approach that combines technology with operational expertise of military users, engineers, instructors, procurement specialists and commanders who continuously adapt systems to battlefield needs; |
Reinis Pozņaks, Michał Dworczyk
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24b. Calls for synergy between EU cooperation with Ukraine and the NATO-Ukraine Innovation Cooperation Roadmap as a key means of establishing closer ties between research institutions and defence industries, streamlining innovation pipelines and enabling rapid prototyping and deployment of drone-related systems; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24c. Stresses that Ukraine’s experience shows that military advantage depends not only on innovation speed before procurement, but also on adaptation speed after deployment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU defence innovation instruments support continuous operational feedback, continuous upgrades and the rapid adaptation of fielded capabilities to evolving threats; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment24c. Calls for annual joint drone doctrine integration exercises across CSDP operations and EU Battlegroups, coordinated through the Military Planning and Conduct Capability and evaluated in partnership with NATO’s Joint Force Command and Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre, to ensure doctrinal compatibility and operational realism; |
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| Motion for a resolution25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; | Amendment25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; calls, further, on the Commission, in close cooperation with Ukraine, to develop transparent, competitive and legally secure mechanisms that enable European defence companies, in particular SMEs and start-ups, to contribute more to Ukraine’s defence through joint development, production and supply; highlights the fact that such cooperation bolsters Ukraine’s defence capabilities while enabling European companies to validate and further develop their systems under operational conditions, thus also bolstering Europe’s own defence preparedness; |
Nicolás Pascual de la Parte
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| Motion for a resolution25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; | Amendment25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; insists, that technology exchange agreements with Ukrainian entities must be subject to robust end-use monitoring, re-export controls and security classification requirements equivalent to those applicable to EU companies, and must be developed in full coordination with applicable NATO technology security frameworks to prevent unintended proliferation of sensitive European defence technologies; |
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
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| Motion for a resolution25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; | Amendment25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; calls on the Commission to extend venture capital and innovation funding to Ukraine; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that demand for Ukrainian developed innovative defence technologies is maintained in long-term capability planning and procurement commitments; |
Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Christophe Bay
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| Motion for a resolution25. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all future EU defence instruments continue to expand access for Ukrainian companies and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; | Amendment25. Calls on the Commission to integrate Ukrainian companies in relevant future EU defence instruments and facilitate technology exchange with EU companies in order to build long-term partnerships; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment25a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that defence industrial cooperation with Ukraine preserves and develops battlefield-tested expertise, supports joint production and certification pathways within the Union, and prevents the uncontrolled loss of critical know-how, skilled personnel and intellectual property from the European defence innovation ecosystem; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment25a. Acknowledges that Ukraine's membership in the European Union would constitute a more facilitated sharing of military capabilities and would provide European defence industries with direct access to Ukrainian operational experience, like battlefield-tested innovations in drone warfare; |
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| Motion for a resolution | Amendment25a. Recommends launching joint EU-NATO exercises on drone swarm defence, electronic warfare resilience, low-cost kinetic effectors and directed-energy systems at multinational test ranges, with structured EU observer status and reciprocal access for EU-led initiatives; |