Sittings · Document
On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects
Committee on Security and Defence Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection · Rapporteur: Lucia Yar, Henrik Dahl
Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on accelerating permit-granting for defence readiness projects. It sets a 50-working-day limit for permit decisions, allows limited extensions, and requires each member state to set up a single point of contact.¶¶¶ It defines defence readiness projects and the defence industry broadly, covering services and supply, and requires fast-track procedures, tacit approval where national law allows, and administrative support focused on SMEs and mid-caps.¶¶¶ Member states must publish centralised online information on procedures, funding and applicable environmental, health and safety laws, and ensure impartial single points of contact with sufficient staff and digital tools.¶¶¶ It adds rules on spatial planning, urgent dispute resolution, cross-border coordination, and annual reporting by member states to the Commission on permits, tacit approvals and SME support.¶¶¶
Committee position. The committees adopt Parliament's position at first reading with amendments to the Commission proposal, setting a 50-working-day permit limit, single points of contact, tacit approval rules, SME support and annual reporting.¶¶¶
Key points
- Defines a defence readiness project as activities, investments or measures primarily intended to enhance the defence readiness of one or several member states, including developing or modernising the defence industry.¶
- Defines the defence industry to include undertakings developing, producing, manufacturing or supplying defence-related products and those providing services that enhance member states' defence readiness.¶
- Requires each member state to establish or designate a single point of contact within 3 months of entry into force, acting as a single interface for each project.¶
- Requires the single point of contact to coordinate the permit process, give information on completeness and documentation, and allow electronic submission via a secure interoperable portal.¶¶
- Requires member states to give single points of contact and competent authorities enough qualified staff and financial, technical and digital resources, and lets the Commission assist with capacity building on request.¶¶
- Requires member states to publish centralised online information on permit procedures, funding possibilities, standardised application templates and applicable environmental, health and safety laws.¶¶¶
- Requires administrative support for all project promoters, with particular attention to SMEs and mid-caps, including compliance assistance, cross-border coordination and a dedicated SME desk.¶¶¶
- Sets the permit-granting process at no more than 50 working days from acknowledgement of completeness, with a one-time extension of up to 25 working days and a further extension of up to 50 working days in exceptional cases.¶¶¶
- Requires the single point of contact to acknowledge completeness within 12 working days, and provides that permits are deemed granted if no outcome is notified within the time limit, unless national law excludes tacit approval.¶¶
- Requires national, regional and local authorities to include provisions for defence readiness activities and infrastructure in spatial plans, taking account of cyber and hybrid threat security considerations.¶
- Requires dispute resolution procedures, litigation, appeals and administrative proceedings on defence readiness projects to be treated as urgent where national law provides for urgency procedures, without undermining the right to an effective remedy.¶
- Requires each member state to submit an annual statistical report to the Commission on applications, permits granted, tacit approvals and SME support, and empowers the Commission to adopt implementing acts on the reporting template.¶
Who is affected
- Defence industry undertakings, including SMEs and mid-caps, which gain fast-track permits and dedicated support.¶¶¶
- Member states, which must set up single points of contact, publish information and report annually.¶¶¶
- National, regional and local planning authorities, which must include defence readiness provisions in spatial plans.¶
- Project promoters, who can submit documents electronically and benefit from tacit approval rules.¶¶
- The Commission, which assists with capacity building and adopts implementing acts on reporting.¶¶
Figures and deadlines
- EUR 800bn: possible defence investment over the next four years under the ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030.¶
- 3 months after entry into force: deadline for member states to establish or designate a single point of contact.¶
- 6 months: maximum period for a member state's time-bound plan to achieve full e-processing capability.¶
- 50 working days: maximum duration of the permit-granting process from acknowledgement of completeness.¶
- 25 working days: maximum one-time extension of the permit-granting time limit.¶
- 50 working days: further extension in exceptional cases, decided within 25 working days of the start of the process.¶
- 12 working days: deadline for the single point of contact to acknowledge completeness of an application.¶
- 10 days, and not later than 3 working days: deadline for written confirmation of tacitly granted permits.¶
Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.¶
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