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Draft report (COM(2024)0150 – C9-0056/2024 – 2024/0061(COD)) 2025-03-28

European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP’)

Committee on Security and Defence Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Amendment 543

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. Only actions implementing the objectives set out in Article 4 shall be eligible for funding. An eligible action shall relate to one or more of the activities referred to in paragraph 2 to 5:	1. Actions eligible for funding under the Programme shall implement the objectives set out in Article 3 and may take one of the following forms, or a combination thereof:
	a) common procurement actions (Article 12), including for the establishment and maintenance of defence industrial readiness pools (Article 15);
	b) industrial reinforcement actions (Article 13);
	c) supporting actions (Article 14);
	d) European Defence Projects of Common Interest (Article 16);
	e) the establishment of a Fund to Accelerate defence Supply chains Transformation (Article 17).

Or. en

Amendment 544

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. Only actions implementing the objectives set out in Article 4 shall be eligible for funding. An eligible action shall relate to one or more of the activities referred to in paragraph 2 to 5:	1. Actions eligible for funding under the Programme shall implement the objectives set out in Article 3 and may take one of the following forms, or a combination thereof :
	a) common procurement actions, including for the establishment and maintenance of defence industrial readiness pools;
	b) industrial reinforcement actions;
	c) supporting actions;
	d) European Defence Projects of Common Interest;
	d) the establishment of a Fund to Accelerate defence Supply chains Transformation;

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Amendment 545

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. Only actions implementing the objectives set out in Article 4 shall be eligible for funding. An eligible action shall relate to one or more of the activities referred to in paragraph 2 to 5:	1. Actions eligible for funding under the Programme shall implement the objectives set out in Article 4 and may take one of the following forms, or a combination thereof:

Or. en

Amendment 546

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a) common procurement actions (Article 12), including for the establishment and maintenance of defence industrial readiness pools (Article 14);

Or. en

Amendment 547

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b) industrial reinforcement actions (Article 13);

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Amendment 548

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c) supporting actions (Article 14);

Or. en

Amendment 549

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point d (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d) European Defence Projects of Common Interest (Article 15);

Or. en

Amendment 550

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point e (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e) the establishment of a Fund to Accelerate defence Supply chains Transformation (Article 19).

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Amendment 551

Pierre-Romain Thionnet

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. The cost of components originating from the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 80 % of the estimated value of the end product.

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Amendment 552

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).	2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b). Project proposals that have been assessed and meet the requirements under Regulation (EU) 2023/2418 but could not receive funding due to budgetary constraints shall be reassessed with regard to eligibility criteria of this regulation and shall be, in derogation to article 18, awarded instantly, provided eligibility criteria of this regulation are met.

Or. en

Amendment 553

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).	2. The following actions shall not be eligible for funding under the Programme:

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Amendment 554

Jan Farský

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).	2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, with a particular emphasis on air-defence systems, battle tanks, IFVs, UAVs, and electronic warfare equipment, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).

Or. en

Amendment 555

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).	2. The following actions shall not be eligible for funding under the Programme:
	a) actions related to good or services which are prohibited by international law;
	b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes actions against humans;
	c) actions or parts thereof, that are already fully financed from other public or private sources.

Or. en

Amendment 556

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).	2. The following actions shall not be eligible for funding under the Programme:
	a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by international law;
	b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;
	c) actions or parts thereof, that are already fully financed from other public or private sources.

Or. en

Amendment 557

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).	2. Activities related to cooperation of public authorities in defence procurement processes (defence cooperation actions) may cover the cooperation at the European level for common procurement of defence products, throughout the life cycle of defence products, including for the purpose of building a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to Article 14(1), point (b).

Or. en

Amendment 558

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by international law;

Or. en

Amendment 559

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;

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Amendment 560

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c) actions or parts thereof, that are already fully financed from other public or private sources.

Or. en

Amendment 561

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. Activities related to speeding up the adjustment to structural changes of the production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:	3. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of the all components in the end product; no components shall be sourced from non-associated third country that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union or its Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations;

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Amendment 562

Elena Donazzan, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. Activities related to speeding up the adjustment to structural changes of the production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:	3. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of all components of the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union or its Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 563

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. Activities related to speeding up the adjustment to structural changes of the production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:	3. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of all components in the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union or its Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

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Amendment 564

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. Activities related to speeding up the adjustment to structural changes of the production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:	3. Activities related to modernisation and speeding up the adjustment to structural changes or technological developments of the production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:

Or. en

Amendment 565

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. Activities related to speeding up the adjustment to structural changes of the production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:	3. Activities related to speeding up the adjustment to structural changes of the production capacity of key defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of such defence products (industry reinforcement actions) may cover:

Or. en

Amendment 566

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 567

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 568

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 569

Tom Berendsen

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;	(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, automisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production and assembly capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;

Or. en

Amendment 570

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;	(a) the optimisation, expansion, modernisation, upgrading or repurposing of existing, or the establishment of new, production capacities insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of key defence products, in particular with a view to increasing production capacity or reducing lead production times, including on the basis of the procurement or acquisition of the requisite machine tools and any other necessary input;

Or. en

Amendment 571

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 572

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 573

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 574

Tom Berendsen

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans; and making available facilities for starting and scaling up production by setting up dedicated manufacturing hubs;

Or. en

Amendment 575

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	(b) strengthening the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships across the Union and the associated countries, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, including with SMEs and mid-caps, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;

Or. en

Amendment 576

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships across the Union and the associated countries, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;

Or. en

Amendment 577

Inese Vaidere

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, including with SMEs, mid-caps and start-ups, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;

Or. en

Amendment 578

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Susana Solís Pérez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, including with SMEs and mid-caps, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;

Or. en

Amendment 579

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;	(b) the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, including through public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, in a joint industrial effort, including activities that aim to coordinate the sourcing or reservation and stockpiling of key defence products, components and corresponding raw materials insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of key defence products, as well as to coordinate production capacities and production plans;

Or. en

Amendment 580

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) of defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 581

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) of defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 582

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) of defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 583

Wouter Beke

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) of defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;	(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) as well as the transformation of existing but unadapted facilities in order to be capable of the production of defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;

Or. en

Amendment 584

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) of defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;	(c) the building-up and making available of reserved surge manufacturing capacities (ever warm facilities) of key defence products, their components and corresponding raw materials, insofar as those components and raw materials are intended or used wholly for the production of such defence products, in accordance with ordered or planned production volumes;

Or. en

Amendment 585

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least two Member States including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 586

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least two Member States including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 587

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least two Member States including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 588

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least two Member States including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;	(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of key defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least three countries, of which two Member States, including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;

Or. en

Amendment 589

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least two Member States including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;	(d) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of defence products that have been developed in the framework of actions funded by the Union or other cooperative activities conducted with support by at least three Member States including through the establishment of cross-border industrial partnerships, public private partnerships or other forms of industrial cooperation, ramping-up of initial production as well as licensing production, where appropriate;

Or. en

Justification

According to EDF Regulation an action should be eligible for funding only if it is to be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries.

Amendment 590

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) fostering industrialisation and commercialisation of key defence products with significantly improved performance notably concerning resource-efficiency in operation (targeting the substitution of key resources for tactical or vital reasons – such as fossil fuels), and, sustainability characteristics such as in terms of footprint of the manufacturing process, in particular concerning the use of critical raw materials, energy, water, and land, and pollution of air, water and soil;

Or. en

Amendment 591

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) facilitating the participation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) through dedicated funding mechanisms, reduced administrative barriers, and incentives for cross-border collaboration.

Or. en

Amendment 592

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(e) the testing, including the necessary infrastructure, and, as appropriate, reconditioning certification of defence products with a view to addressing their obsolescence and making them useable by end users.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 593

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(e) the testing, including the necessary infrastructure, and, as appropriate, reconditioning certification of defence products with a view to addressing their obsolescence and making them useable by end users.	deleted

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Amendment 594

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(e) the testing, including the necessary infrastructure, and, as appropriate, reconditioning certification of defence products with a view to addressing their obsolescence and making them useable by end users.	deleted

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Amendment 595

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e a) the development and integration of software solutions for defence systems, including applications for command and control, reconnaissance, threats detection, counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS), and other countermeasure technologies, to enhance the operational effectiveness and resilience of defence systems.

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Amendment 596

Andrey Novakov, Eva Maydell, François-Xavier Bellamy, Andrey Kovatchev, Ilia Lazarov, Radan Kanev, Ivaylo Valchev, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Emil Radev, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Paulius Saudargas, Marta Wcisło

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e a) activities that aim to ensure energy security for the defence industrial and technological base, including through the use or deployment of technologically neutral energy sources and protection of critical infrastructure against military and hybrid threats.

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Amendment 597

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e a) promoting synergies between defence and civil industries, particularly in energy storage, hydrogen, and next-generation battery technologies, to enhance dual-use applications that strengthen both defence and civilian infrastructure.

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Amendment 598

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e a) the development of new defence technologies or ICT solutions with defence or dual use by EU companies (EU defence innovations)

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Amendment 599

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e b) integrating energy efficiency and sustainability criteria into projects funded under this Programme, including reduced carbon footprints, optimized energy consumption, and the utilization of renewable energy sources where feasible.

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Amendment 600

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e b) the acquisition of new technologies and/or IP rights for new technologies, to be used by all Member States to enhance their defence undustrial capabilities (EU-owned defence technologies and IP rights)

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Amendment 601

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e c) enhancing the energy security of defence manufacturing by reducing reliance on non-EU energy suppliers and critical raw materials essential for the production of key defence technologies.

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Amendment 602

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e d (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e d) funding research and development activities aimed at developing advanced propulsion technologies, such as hydrogen fuel cells, hybrid-electric systems, and synthetic fuels, to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

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Amendment 603

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e e (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e e) promoting investments in resilient energy infrastructure for military facilities, including microgrids, smart energy management, and backup storage systems to ensure operational continuity in crisis situations.

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Amendment 604

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e f (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e f) facilitating cooperation between the defence and energy sectors to accelerate the deployment of new energy solutions, including grid-independent power generation, alternative fuels, and enhanced energy storage technologies for military applications.

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Amendment 605

Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 – point e g (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(e g) fostering greater cross-border cooperation, joint production capabilities, and the integration of European energy and industrial policies to ensure supply chain security within the European defence industry.

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Amendment 606

Jan Farský

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 3 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	3 a. the development and implementation of simplified and standardised procedures for application, reporting, and evaluation of EDIP projects, with a focus on reducing administrative burden for beneficiaries. the development and implementation of simplified and standardised procedures for application, reporting, and evaluation of EDIP projects, with a focus on reducing administrative burden for beneficiaries.

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Amendment 607

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest.	4. Actions related to goods and services subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities shall only be eligible for funding providing that the following conditions are met:
	a) At least a legal entity participating in the actions commit to studying the feasibility of replacing the components that cause the restriction with an alternative, restrictions-free component originating in the EU.
	b) At least a legal entity participating in the actions have the ability to decide, without restrictions by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product's design, including the legal authority to substitute the components subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by third non-associated third-country entities with alternative, restriction-free components originated in the EU.

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Amendment 608

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest.	4. Actions related to goods and services subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities shall only be eligible for funding providing that the following conditions are met:
	a) (at least a) legal entity participating in the actions commit to studying the feasibility of replacing the components that cause the restriction with an alternative, restrictions-free component originating in the EU;
	b) (at least a) legal entity participating in the actions have the ability to decide, without restrictions by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product's design, including the legal authority to substitute the components subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities with alternative, restriction-free components originated in the EU;

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Amendment 609

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest.	4. Actions related to goods and services subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities shall only be eligible for funding providing that the following conditions are met:

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Amendment 610

Giorgio Gori, Dario Nardella, Nicola Zingaretti, Marco Tarquinio, Annalisa Corrado

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest.	4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest, in the light of the need of building a common and integrated European defence.

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Amendment 611

Inese Vaidere

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest.	4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest, including physical infrastructure actions linked to that project.

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Amendment 612

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Susana Solís Pérez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest.	4. Activities aiming at supporting the deployment of a European Defence Project of Common Interest, including those relating to dual-use technologies.

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Amendment 613

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a) At least a Legal entity participating in the actions commits to studying the feasibility of replacing the components that cause the restriction with an alternative, restrictions-free component originating in the EU.

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Amendment 614

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 4 – point b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b) At least a legal entity participating in the actions has the ability to decide, without restrictions by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product's design, including the legal authority to substitute the components subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities with alternative, restriction-free components originated in the EU.

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Amendment 615

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
5. Supporting activities (‘support actions’) may cover:	5. Article 5(3) of Directive 2009/43 of the European Parliament and of the Council shall apply to defence products related to actions supported by the Programme;

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Amendment 616

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
5. Supporting activities (‘support actions’) may cover:	5. Article 5(3) of Directive 2009/43 of the European Parliament and of the Council shall apply to defence products related to actions supported by the Programme.

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Amendment 617

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
5. Supporting activities (‘support actions’) may cover:	5. Article 5(3) of Directive 2009/43 of the European Parliament and of the Council shall apply to defence products related to actions supported by the Programme.

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Amendment 618

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 619

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 620

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 621

Yannis Maniatis, Nicola Zingaretti, Giorgio Gori, Dario Nardella, Bruno Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards; these activities aim at enhancing interoperability among Member States' defence systems, ensuring seamless integration and cooperation across borders;

Or. en

Amendment 622

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards and of reducing the number of different key defence products across the Union fulfilling similar operational duties;

Or. en

Amendment 623

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards; any such activities shall not weaken legal and ethical requirements in any of the participating Member States;

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Amendment 624

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of military standards;	(a) activities that aim to increase interoperability and interchangeability, including the cross certification of defence products and activities leading to mutual recognition of certification or to facilitate the implementation of NATO military standards;

Or. en

Amendment 625

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 626

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 627

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 628

Wouter Beke

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;	(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in order to safeguard a level-playing field, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;

Or. en

Amendment 629

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Susana Solís Pérez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;	(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps, start-ups and scale-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;

Or. en

Amendment 630

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, small mid-caps, other mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;	(b) activities to strengthen security of supply and resilience, in particular by facilitating the access to the defence market for SMEs, mid-caps and start-ups and support to obtain the necessary quality and production certifications;

Or. en

Amendment 631

Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b a) activities to put specific emphasis on enabling innovation led by SMEs and mid-cap enterprises in the development of defence capabilities where the Union faces critical shortfalls. Priority shall be given to cost-effective long-range strike capabilities, integrated missile defence systems, protective technologies against long-range attacks, and related enabling technologies such as guidance software, propulsion components, sensor systems, and interoperable data links;

Or. en

Amendment 632

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b a) critical infrastructure projects, such as but not limited to, the construction and restoration of railroads, bridges, energy infrastructure, digital infrastructure as a service, universal platforms, such as search engines and foundation AI models governed by new public institutions with public and civil society representation;

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Amendment 633

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 634

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 635

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 636

Morten Løkkegaard, João Cotrim De Figueiredo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article;	(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article; including the effective operationalization of collaborative cyber capabilities, enhancing the interoperability of cyber defence tools, and fostering robust engagement with cyber defence capabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 637

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article;	(c) the training, reskilling or upskilling of personnel in relation to the activities referred to in this Article, both through professional reconversion of people, namely European citizens coming from other sectors, without discrimination, of the unemployed from all member villages, but also of young people at the beginning of their careers;

Or. en

Amendment 638

Petras Auštrevičius

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) the procurement of production essential for the provision of civil protection and public security needs as an integral part of defence capabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 639

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 640

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 641

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 642

Yannis Maniatis, Giorgio Gori, Bruno Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;	(d) activities incorporating a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy to protect against cyber threats and ensure the resilience of the defence systems, including the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;

Or. en

Amendment 643

Inese Vaidere

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;	(d) the procurement of physical and cyber protection systems and barriers, installation of these systems in relation to the activities referred to in paragraph 3, including effective engagement;

Or. en

Amendment 644

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point e

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(e) coordination and (technical) support actions, in particular addressing identified bottlenecks in production capacities and supply chains with a view to securing and accelerating the production of crisis-relevant products in order to ensure their effective supply and timely availability;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 645

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point e

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(e) coordination and (technical) support actions, in particular addressing identified bottlenecks in production capacities and supply chains with a view to securing and accelerating the production of crisis-relevant products in order to ensure their effective supply and timely availability;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 646

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point e

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(e) coordination and (technical) support actions, in particular addressing identified bottlenecks in production capacities and supply chains with a view to securing and accelerating the production of crisis-relevant products in order to ensure their effective supply and timely availability;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 647

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point f

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(f) Union support to Structures for European Armament Programme notably for the purpose of managing and maintaining a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 14(1), point (b);	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 648

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point f

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(f) Union support to Structures for European Armament Programme notably for the purpose of managing and maintaining a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 14(1), point (b);	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 649

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point f

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(f) Union support to Structures for European Armament Programme notably for the purpose of managing and maintaining a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 14(1), point (b);	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 650

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point f

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(f) Union support to Structures for European Armament Programme notably for the purpose of managing and maintaining a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 14(1), point (b);	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 651

Hans Neuhoff

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point f

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(f) Union support to Structures for European Armament Programme notably for the purpose of managing and maintaining a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 14(1), point (b);	(f) Union support to Structures for European Armament Programme notably for the purpose of managing and maintaining a Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 14(1), point (b), provided that such actions demonstrably contribute to improving the EU’s operational defence readiness and interoperability in line with agreed capability shortfalls;

Or. en

Amendment 652

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point g

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(g) Emergency activities, including emergency defence innovation where the measure referred to in Article 52 is activated.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 653

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point g

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(g) Emergency activities, including emergency defence innovation where the measure referred to in Article 52 is activated.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 654

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point g

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(g) Emergency activities, including emergency defence innovation where the measure referred to in Article 52 is activated.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 655

Hans Neuhoff

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point g

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(g) Emergency activities, including emergency defence innovation where the measure referred to in Article 52 is activated.	(g) Emergency activities, including emergency defence innovation where the measure referred to in Article 52 is activated, provided that such actions demonstrably contribute to improving the EU’s operational defence readiness and interoperability in line with agreed capability shortfalls.

Or. en

Justification

Ensures EU funds are used only where concrete security benefit is clear.

Amendment 656

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point g

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(g) Emergency activities, including emergency defence innovation where the measure referred to in Article 52 is activated.	(g) defence innovation referred to in Article 52.

Or. en

Amendment 657

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 658

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 659

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least two eligible legal entities

Or. en

Amendment 660

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States with the possibility for associated countries to participate. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.

Or. en

Amendment 661

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and (da) and in paragraph 5, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least five eligible legal entities which are established in at least five different Member States or associated countries. At least four of those eligible legal entities established in at least three different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.

Or. en

Amendment 662

Marion Maréchal, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Emmanouil Fragkos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 5, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.

Or. fr

Justification

Editorial amendment.

Amendment 663

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.	6. For activities referred to in paragraphs 2, in paragraph 3, point (d), and in paragraph 55, point (a), the action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least four eligible legal entities which are established in at least four different Member States or associated countries. Those eligible legal entities established in at least four different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.

Or. en

Amendment 664

Jan Farský

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6 – point 1 (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(1) Activities related to securing supply chains and reducing dependence on malign actors may cover:
	(a) the development of alternative sources for critical minerals and raw materials;
	(b) the diversification of supply chains for defense products;
	(c) the promotion of indigenous production of critical components and technologies."

Or. en

Amendment 665

Andrey Novakov, Eva Maydell, Andrey Kovatchev, Ilia Lazarov, Ivaylo Valchev, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Emil Radev, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	6 a. All eligible actions under this Regulation shall be considered sustainable in regards to relevant EU environmental and climate frameworks under the Fit for 55 package in order to ensure timely implementation and accelerated defence industry expansion and defence products manufacturing. All eligible actions shall be exempt from the scope of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) to reduce the administrative burden on the companies and on the respective Member State authorities. The Commission shall present targeted amendment of this Regulation as a result of the upcoming Defence Omnibus.

Or. en

Amendment 666

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	6 a. The cost of components sourced from the Union or associated countries must be at least 70 % of the estimated cost of the final product. The 70 % of components originating in the Union or associated countries in cost is a floor and eligible entities are invited to strive gradually for a much higher percentage in new products.

Or. en

Amendment 667

Andrey Novakov, Eva Maydell, Andrey Kovatchev, Ilia Lazarov, Radan Kanev, Ivaylo Valchev, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Emil Radev, Eszter Lakos, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 6 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	6 b. For all eligible actions, the Commission shall provide, jointly with the EIB Group, a single point of contact, extensive technical assistance and a complete project pipeline in view of ensuring improved defence industry and Member State participation.

Or. en

Amendment 668

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 7

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
7. By derogation from paragraph 6, the action may be carried out by a Structure for European Armament Programme.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 669

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 7

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
7. By derogation from paragraph 6, the action may be carried out by a Structure for European Armament Programme.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 670

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 7

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
7. By derogation from paragraph 6, the action may be carried out by a Structure for European Armament Programme.	7. By derogation from paragraph 6, the action may be carried out by a Structure for European Armament Programme, as well as the European Union and its institutions and agencies.

Or. en

Amendment 671

Elena Donazzan, Alberico Gambino

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
8. The following actions shall not be eligible for funding under the Programme:	deleted
(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law;
(b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;
(d) actions or parts thereof, that are already fully financed from other public or private sources.

Or. en

Amendment 672

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
8. The following actions shall not be eligible for funding under the Programme:	deleted
(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law;
(b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;
(d) actions or parts thereof, that are already fully financed from other public or private sources.

Or. en

Amendment 673

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point -a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(-a) The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of the estimated value of the end product. Current components required for defence-involved systems which do not currently exist on the European market should be exempted from the calculation of this percentage;

Or. en

Amendment 674

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 675

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law;	(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law or which are likely to be used to violate international or international humanitarian law;

Or. en

Amendment 676

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law;	(a) actions related to goods or services which are prohibited by applicable international law where such law is binding on the relevant entity or Member State;

Or. en

Justification

Not all Member States follow the same international commitments. Recently Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia announced a plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines due to the military threat from neighboring Russia.

Amendment 677

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 678

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of meaningful human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;	(b) actions related to lethal autonomous weapons without the possibility of full human control over selection and engagement decisions when carrying out strikes against humans;

Or. en

Amendment 679

Pierre-Romain Thionnet

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b a) actions related to products where the cost of components originating from the Union or associated countries is less than 80 % of the estimated value of the end product;

Or. en

Amendment 680

Riho Terras, Jüri Ratas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	deleted

Or. en

Justification

This restriction limits the scope far too much since it would exclude many products which have some components from third countries (such as the United States). Supply chains for defence products are very complex and involve components sourced from a multitude of countries. It is completely disproportionate to exclude any product which has some of its components sourced from third countries. Furthermore, this restriction would likely disproportionately affect SMEs whose ability to opt for more expensive EU-made components is more limited (presuming that an EU-made alternative is even available).

Amendment 681

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 682

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 683

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer which limits the ability of a Member State to use those products or undermine the security and defence interests of the Union or the essential security interests of its Member States, including adherence to the principle of good neighbourly relations;

Or. en

Amendment 684

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer, unless one of the participating entities has the legal authority and the ability to decide on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product's design;

Or. en

Amendment 685

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer unless the company that provides the goods or services is located within the EU and a Member State justifies that they are needed to cover its strategic needs;

Or. en

Amendment 686

Nathalie Loiseau, Ivars Ijabs, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Marjan Šarec, Christophe Grudler, Lucia Yar, Michał Kobosko

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	(c) actions related to goods and services for which eligible entities participating in the actions do not own the full design authority;

Or. en

Amendment 687

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, which limits the ability of a Member State to use those products;

Or. en

Amendment 688

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer;	(c) actions related to goods or services which are subject to restriction by a Member State, non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, which limits the ability of their operational use by Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 689

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) actions related to defence products for which the design authority, as defined in article 2, is not in the EU or in an associated country;

Or. en

Amendment 690

Massimiliano Salini, Letizia Moratti, Salvatore De Meo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) actions or parts thereof, that are already fully financed from other public or private sources.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 691

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) any action related to the development, transfer or interoperability of nuclear weapons and related technology, including any systems that can deliver nuclear weapons such as but not limited to jet fighter aircraft and submarines.

Or. en

Amendment 692

Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	By way of derogation from paragraph 8(c), and in view of the urgent need to enhance critical industrial capacities, actions related to air and missile defence shall not be subject to that restriction.

Or. en

Amendment 693

Nathalie Loiseau, Ivars Ijabs, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Bart Groothuis, Marjan Šarec, Christophe Grudler, Petras Auštrevičius, Lucia Yar, Sigrid Friis, Michał Kobosko, Engin Eroglu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of the estimated cost of the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.
	The goal to achieve 65% of components originating in the Union or associated countries in cost is a floor and eligible entities are invited to aim gradually at a much higher percentage in new products.

Or. en

Amendment 694

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. In the light of geopolitical situation and the urgent need to procure or ramp-up the manufacturing of defence products with the support of the programme, by the way of derogation the paragraph 8, point (a) will not apply to urgent and critical defence products, provided that the action contributes to the procurement or production of a defence product which is in high and urgent demand by the armed forces of one or more Member States as a result of exposure to conventional military threats by a third country;

Or. en

Justification

Recently, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, citing military threats from neighbouring Russia. The provisions of the programme should reflect the different levels of military threat faced by Member States and their corresponding different needs for defence products.

Amendment 695

Marion Maréchal, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Emmanouil Fragkos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8a. The authorised share of components from third countries in a defence end-product shall not exceed 20% of its estimated value.Five years after the entry into force of this Regulation, that limit shall be set at 5% and, for critical components, at 0%.
	By 30 June 2026, on the basis of the recommendations established by the committee referred to in Article 58, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act laying down the calculation method.

Or. fr

Justification

In line with the White Paper on the future of European defence, published by the Commission on 19 March 2025, the thresholds for non-EU components put the principle of European preference at the heart of the programme. Lessening dependence on third countries is an imperative which, in legislation, must be reflected in ambitious objectives over time, on the understanding that Member States will still be able, outside this European programme, to procure defence products from third countries.

Amendment 696

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components for new or repairs for existing military equipement originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 80 % of the estimated cost of the end product or service. No components or repair operations shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 697

Christian Ehler, Angelika Niebler, Oliver Schenk

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65 % of the estimated value of the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 698

Rasa Juknevičienė

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating from outside the Union or associated countries shall not be higher than 35% of the estimated cost of the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union or its Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations;

Or. en

Amendment 699

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65 % of the estimated cost of the end product. For the purpose of calculating this percentage, components which do not currently exist on the European market shall be excluded.

Or. en

Amendment 700

Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. By way of derogation from paragraph 8(c), and in light of the geopolitical situation and the urgent need to ramp-up the manufacturing of defence products with support of the programme, actions related to air and missile defence shall not be subject to that restriction.

Or. en

Justification

Proposal to align with the EDIRPA and ASAP principles while ensuring that EDIP can support licensed production critical and urgent defense products, i.e. air and missile defence.

Amendment 701

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating from outside the Union or associated countries shall not be higher than 40% of the estimated cost of components of the end product.

Or. en

Amendment 702

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating from the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than a 60% of the estimated value of the end product.

Or. en

Amendment 703

Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 60 % of the estimated value of the end product.

Or. en

Amendment 704

Alice Teodorescu Måwe, Tomas Tobé, Jörgen Warborn, Niels Flemming Hansen, Pekka Toveri, Mika Aaltola, Aura Salla

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65 % of the estimated value of the end product.

Or. en

Amendment 705

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Susana Solís Pérez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of the estimated value of the end product.

Or. en

Amendment 706

Pierre-Romain Thionnet

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. actions linked to the licensed production of non-European material;

Or. en

Amendment 707

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 b. In the light of geopolitical situation and the urgent need to procure or ramp-up the manufacturing of defence products with the support of the programme, by the way of derogation the paragraph 8, point (c) will not apply to urgent and critical defence products, provided that one of the following conditions is met:
	(i) the action contributes to the procurement or production of a defence product which was in use in use prior to 24 of February 2022 within the armed forces of majority of Member States participating in the action;
	(ii) the action contributes to the procurement or production of a defence product which is in high demand by the armed forces of one or more Member States as a result of exposure to conventional military threats;
	(iii) at least one legal entities participating in the actions have the ability to decide, without restrictions by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product’s design, including the legal authority to substitute or disassemble the components subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third country entities with alternative, restriction-free components originating in the EU;
	(iv) at least one legal entity participating in the actions commits to studying the feasibility of replacing the components that cause the restriction with an alternative, restriction-free component originating in the EU.

Or. en

Amendment 708

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 b. Actions related to defence products subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities shall be eligible for funding provided that the following conditions are met:
	(a) legal entities or Member States participating in the actions have, or by means of an existing contractual commitment have taken steps and will continue the actions to obtain, the ability to decide, without restrictions by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product’s design, including the legal authority to substitute or disassemble the components subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities with alternative, restriction-free components originating in the EU;
	(b) at least one of the legal entities participating in the actions commit to studying the feasibility of replacing the components that cause the restriction with an alternative, restriction-free component originating in the Union.

Or. en

Amendment 709

Rasa Juknevičienė

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 b. Actions related to defence products subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities shall be eligible for funding provided that the following conditions are met:
	(a) at least one of the legal entities participating in the actions has the ability to decide, without restrictions by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, on the definition, adaptation and evolution of the product’s design, including the legal authority to substitute or disassemble the components subject to restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities with alternative, restriction-free components originating in the Union;
	(b) at least one of the legal entities participating in the actions commit to studying the feasibility of replacing the components that cause the restriction with an alternative, restriction-free component originating in the Union.

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Amendment 710

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 b. To be eligible for funding, the common procurement actions shall be exclusively related to the purchase of defence products and services for which eligible entities (as refered in Art.10) own full design authority.

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Amendment 711

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 c. In light of the geopolitical situation and the urgent need to procure defence products with the support of the Programme, by way of derogation, points 8a and 8b shall not apply to urgent and critical defence products.

Or. en

Amendment 712

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 c. The recipient shall make efforts to ensure that action funded by the Programme will allow for delivery of output to Ukraine or Moldova.

Or. en

Amendment 713

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 – paragraph 8 d (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 d. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union or its Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 714

Niels Flemming Hansen, Tomas Tobé, Pekka Toveri, Mika Aaltola, Alice Teodorescu Måwe, Aura Salla

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	Article11a
	Methodology for calculating Union and associated country content
	1. By means of an implementing act, the Commission shall adopt a common, transparent, and verifiable methodology for determining the proportion of components originating in the Union or associated countries in the estimated value of a defence end product.
	2. The methodology referred to in paragraph 1 shall be established before any threshold relating to the origin of components is applied under this Regulation. It shall be developed following consultation with Member States and relevant stakeholders, including representatives of the defence industry, and shall ensure legal certainty, proportionality, non-discrimination, and the competitiveness of the European defence industry.
	3. The methodology shall be based on objective, legally sound, and economically justified principles, taking into account the perspective of the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB). It shall be applied uniformly by all Member States and entities involved in the implementation of this Regulation.
	4. The Commission shall monitor and ensure the consistent application of the methodology across the Union, providing guidance where necessary and reporting to the European Parliament and the Council on its implementation every 3 years."

Or. en

Justification

The draft report establishes a sourcing threshold for defence products but fails to provide sufficient clarity or precision regarding the calculation and verification of Union or associated country content, risking divergent interpretations and undermining the coherence of its application across the internal market. The proposed amendment addresses this gap by mandating the development of a common, transparent, and verifiable methodology, to be adopted via an implementing act, ensuring uniform application across all Member States.

Amendment 715

Yannis Maniatis, Giorgio Gori

Proposal for a regulation

Article 11 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	Article11a
	Specific Provisions applicable to exports
	1. For defence or dual use capacities and products, having received support under this Program, any export decision shall be notified to the Commission ,
	The Commission shall inform the committe referred to article 58 paragraph 3, which shall assess the request and give a binding opinion.
	No export licence shallbe granted for defence or dual use capacities and products having received support under this Program in violation of the criteria established in Common Position 2008/944/CFSP and particular criterion five on the national security of the Member States and of territories whose external relations are the responsibility of a Member State.
	2. In the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP), when common rules for exports for defence products have been agreed in accordance with Article 17 paragraph 2(c), the Commission shall inform the committee referred to article 58, which should verify the compliance with those rules.

Or. en

Amendment 716

Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) International Organisations;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 717

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) The European Union and its institutions and agencies.

Or. en

Amendment 718

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	4 a. The agreement referred in paragraph 4 may authorise the procurement agent to procure additional quantities of the concerned defence product for Ukraine or Moldova. Such an authorisation shall be unanimously approved by the Member States participating in the common procurement.

Or. en

Amendment 719

Petras Auštrevičius

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, or potentially other EU candidate countries.

Or. en

Amendment 720

Dan Nica, Vasile Dîncu, Andi Cristea

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries, Ukraine or R. Moldova.

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Amendment 721

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine or Moldova.

Or. en

Amendment 722

Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine or Moldova.

Or. en

Amendment 723

Roberto Vannacci

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States and associated countries;

Or. en

Amendment 724

András Gyürk, György Hölvényi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States and associated countries.

Or. en

Amendment 725

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States, associated countries or Ukraine.	The common procurement contract shall include provisions governing the purchase of additional quantities of defence products for other Member States or associated countries.

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Amendment 726

Dan Nica, Vasile Dîncu, Andi Cristea

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	Before launching a common procurement procedure, the procurement agent should, whenever relevant, also inform associated countries, Ukraine and R. Moldova, of the planned procedure and provide them with the opportunity to submit a substantial request to the procurement agent to purchase additional quantities of defence products.

Or. en

Amendment 727

Nathalie Loiseau, Ivars Ijabs, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Marjan Šarec, Christophe Grudler, Michał Kobosko, Engin Eroglu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 a. To be eligible for funding, the common procurement actions shall be exclusively related to the purchase of defence products and services for which contractors own full design authority. Additionally, the cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 65% of the estimated cost of the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union or its Member States.
	The goal to achieve 65% of components originating in the Union or associated countries in cost is a floor and eligible entities are invited to aim gradually at a much higher percentage in new products.

Or. en

Amendment 728

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 a. The cost of components for new or repairs/maintanence for existing military equipement originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 80 % of the estimated cost of the end product or service. No components or repair operations shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 729

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 a. The cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries shall not be lower than 80 % of the estimated value of the end product. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 730

Andrey Novakov, Eva Maydell, Andrey Kovatchev, Ilia Lazarov, Radan Kanev, Ivaylo Valchev, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Emil Radev, Eszter Lakos, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Paulius Saudargas, Marta Wcisło

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 a. The Commission, Member States and the procurement agents shall ensure a fast-track common procurement pipeline for a timely completion of relevant procedures, checks and contracting, in view of ensuring stockpiling and availability of defence production.

Or. en

Amendment 731

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 a. No components shall be sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 732

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 b. Until [3 years after the entry into force of this Regulation], a common procurement may derogate to the paragraph 8 provided that the cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries is not lower than 65 % of the estimated value of the end product, and that no components is sourced from non-associated third countries that contravene the security and defence interests of the Union and the Member States, including respect for the principle of good neighbourly relations.

Or. en

Amendment 733

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 12 – paragraph 7 c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	7 c. Where applicable and notwhistanding Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Article 5(5), iron, steel and aluminium contained in the end product shall be in line with the ecodesign requirements set out under that Regulation, no later than 18 months after the relevant delegated acts are applicable.

Or. en

Amendment 734

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 13 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (a), (b) and (c), in order to be eligible for funding actions shall be exclusively related to the production capacities of defence products, including their components and raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products.	1. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (a), (b) and (c), in order to be eligible for funding actions shall be exclusively related to the production capacities of defence products, including their components and raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products intended for Member States.

Or. en

Amendment 735

Nathalie Loiseau, Ivars Ijabs, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Marjan Šarec, Christophe Grudler, Lucia Yar, Michał Kobosko

Proposal for a regulation

Article 13 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (a), (b) and (c), in order to be eligible for funding actions shall be exclusively related to the production capacities of defence products, including their components and raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products.	1. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (a), (b) and (c), in order to be eligible for funding actions shall be exclusively related to the production capacities of defence products, including their components and raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products for which eligible entities own full design authority.

Or. en

Amendment 736

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 13 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (a), (b) and (c), in order to be eligible for funding actions shall be exclusively related to the production capacities of defence products, including their components and raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products.	1. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (a), (b), (c), and (da) in order to be eligible for funding actions shall be exclusively related to the production capacities of key defence products, including their components and raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of such defence products.

Or. en

Amendment 737

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. For activities referred to in Article 11(3), point (d), costs shall not be eligible when the ownership of the intellectual property resulting from such costs is subject to restrictions by a non-associated third country or a non-associated third country entity, or transferred to entities established outside the territory of the Member State or the associated countries.

Or. en

Amendment 738

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
Article 14	deleted
Specific provisions applicable for activities contributing to a European Military Sales Mechanism
1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):
(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB;
(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;
(c) the facilitation and speeding up of procurement procedures in a spirit of solidarity;
(d) the support to administrative capacity building related to public procurement of defence products, with the aim of facilitating joint procurement.
2. The Commission shall draw up the technical specifications for and procure the corporate IT platform required to establish the catalogue referred to in paragraph 1, point (a) of this Article based on consultations with the Defence Industrial Readiness Board.
3. Where Member States jointly procure additional quantities or contribute through in-kind contributions to build up a defence industrial readiness pool as referred to in paragraph 2, point (b), in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme, the Commission shall financially support the initiative through:
(a) support to common procurement of additional quantities as referred to in Article 11(2);
(b) contribution to the direct and indirect costs of managing and maintaining the Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 11(5), point (f);
(c) contribution to administrative capacity building as referred to in Article 11(5).
4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.

Or. en

Amendment 739

Raphaël Glucksmann, Thijs Reuten, Tobias Cremer, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Elio Di Rupo, Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
Article 14	deleted
Specific provisions applicable for activities contributing to a European Military Sales Mechanism
1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):
(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB;
(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;
(c) the facilitation and speeding up of procurement procedures in a spirit of solidarity;
(d) the support to administrative capacity building related to public procurement of defence products, with the aim of facilitating joint procurement.
2. The Commission shall draw up the technical specifications for and procure the corporate IT platform required to establish the catalogue referred to in paragraph 1, point (a) of this Article based on consultations with the Defence Industrial Readiness Board.
3. Where Member States jointly procure additional quantities or contribute through in-kind contributions to build up a defence industrial readiness pool as referred to in paragraph 2, point (b), in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme, the Commission shall financially support the initiative through:
(a) support to common procurement of additional quantities as referred to in Article 11(2);
(b) contribution to the direct and indirect costs of managing and maintaining the Defence Industrial Readiness Pool as referred to in Article 11(5), point (f);
(c) contribution to administrative capacity building as referred to in Article 11(5).
4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.

Or. en

Amendment 740

Georgiana Teodorescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):	1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):

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Amendment 741

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):	1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of voluntary measures (EU MSM):

Or. en

Amendment 742

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. To ensure the availability of EU defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):	1. To ensure the availability of EU key defence products in time and in volume thereby fostering the competitiveness of the EDTIB as well as, where relevant, of the Ukrainian DTIB, the Commission shall support the following set of measures (EU MSM):

Or. en

Amendment 743

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB;	(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB and the corresponding level of interoperability and interchangeability;

Or. en

Amendment 744

Wouter Beke

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB;	(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB in order to bolster an EU-wide aggregated demand;

Or. en

Amendment 745

Marion Maréchal, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Adam Bielan, Emmanouil Fragkos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB;	(a) the establishment by the European Defence Agency of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of EDTIB defence products;

Or. fr

Justification

Because of the particularly sensitive nature of the information needed to draw up such a catalogue, there should be a national filter. By conferring this task on the European Defence Agency, independently of the Commission, Member States can establish the prior scrutiny that is essential for safeguarding their strategic national interests.

Amendment 746

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products developed by the EDTIB;	(a) the establishment of a single, centralised, up to date catalogue of defence products and services developed by the EDTIB;

Or. en

Amendment 747

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;	(b) as a request from the Council, the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;

Or. en

Amendment 748

András Gyürk, György Hölvényi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;	(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States and associated countries;

Or. en

Amendment 749

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;	(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made key defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;

Or. en

Amendment 750

Roberto Vannacci

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, associated countries and Ukraine;	(b) the creation of a defence industrial readiness pool, to increase availability and speed up delivery time of EU-made defence products, ensuring an immediate and preferential purchase or use/lease option for Member States, and associated countries;

Or. en

Amendment 751

Hans Neuhoff

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. The measures under this mechanism shall not replace the procurement responsibilities of Member States, which shall retain full discretion in deciding the nature, quantity, and supplier of defence products to be acquired.

Or. en

Justification

Prevents any de facto centralization of procurement decisions in the hands of the Commission or SEAPs.

Amendment 752

Andrey Novakov, Eva Maydell, Andrey Kovatchev, Ilia Lazarov, Radan Kanev, Ivaylo Valchev, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Emil Radev, Eszter Lakos, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Paulius Saudargas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	2 a. The Commission shall, after consulting with the Member States and the defence industry, ensure that the implementation of activities and associated procedures under paragraph 1 do not result in administrative burden on the companies.

Or. en

Amendment 753

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. Where Member States jointly procure additional quantities or contribute through in-kind contributions to build up a defence industrial readiness pool as referred to in paragraph 2, point (b), in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme, the Commission shall financially support the initiative through:	3. Where Member States jointly procure additional quantities or contribute through in-kind contributions to build up a defence industrial readiness pool and repair and maintenance capacity for defence products and equipment, as referred to in paragraph 2, point (b), in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme, the Commission shall financially support the initiative through:

Or. en

Amendment 754

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 3 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	3 a. Participation in this mechanism shall respect the eligibility criteria laid down under this regulation.

Or. en

Amendment 755

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.	4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool and repair and maintenance capacity for defence products and equipment, managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.

Or. en

Amendment 756

Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.	4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine or Moldova buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.

Or. en

Amendment 757

András Gyürk, György Hölvényi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.	4. For the purpose of Member States and associated countries buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.

Or. en

Amendment 758

Roberto Vannacci

Proposal for a regulation

Article 14 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. For the purpose of Member States, associated countries or Ukraine buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.	4. For the purpose of Member States and associated countries buying from the defence industrial readiness pool managed by a Structure for European Armament Programme, the procurement shall be considered as a government-to-government contract as referred to in Article 13, point (f) of Directive 2009/81/EC.

Or. en

Amendment 759

Raphaël Glucksmann, Thijs Reuten, Tobias Cremer, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Elio Di Rupo, Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
[...]	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 760

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – title

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
Specific provisions applicable for activities contributing to European Defence Projects of Common Interest	European Defence Project of Common Interest (EDPCI)

Or. en

Amendment 761

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. The Commission may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.	1. European Defence Project of Common Interest shall consist of collaborative industrial projects aimed at reinforcing the competitiveness of the EDTIB throughout the Union while contributing to the development of Member States’ military capabilities and system of common interest and/or use, including those securing access to all operational domains (i.e. land, maritime, air, space, cyber).
	The Commission may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.

Or. en

Amendment 762

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. The Commission may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.	1. The Commission working in liasion with the European Defence Agency, taking thoroughly into account the capability priorities and gaps identified in the White Paper, the Defence Investment Gaps Analysis and Way Forward, the Capability Development Plan as well as PESCO and EDF projects that address these priorities, may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.

Or. en

Amendment 763

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino, Cristian Terheş, Carlo Ciccioli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. The Commission may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.	1. The Council may adopt an implementing act identifying the list of European Defence Projects of Common Interest upon a proposal by the Commission.

Or. en

Amendment 764

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. The Commission may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.	1. The Commission may identify and submit for approval of the Council European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.

Or. en

Amendment 765

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. The Commission may identify European Defence Projects of Common Interest for funding in the work programme referred to in Article 18.	1. The Council shall adopt implementing acts by qualified majority identifying European Defence Projects of Common Interest.

Or. en

Amendment 766

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino, Cristian Terheş, Carlo Ciccioli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. The Commission shall, when identifying projects referred to in paragraph 1:	2. Before proposing such implementing acts, the Commission shall thoroughly consult all Member States and take due account of their views on the proposed list of projects.

Or. en

Amendment 767

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. The Commission shall, when identifying projects referred to in paragraph 1:	2. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts for funding EDPCIs in the work programme referred to in Article 18.

Or. en

Amendment 768

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Alberico Gambino, Cristian Terheş, Carlo Ciccioli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) duly consider the guidance provided in the context of the Defence Industrial Readiness Board, in particular the contribution of the project to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably of the Capability Development Plan, and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence;	deleted

Or. en

Justification

The fragment relating to the coherence with existing priorities is moved to par. 5

Amendment 769

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) duly consider the guidance provided in the context of the Defence Industrial Readiness Board, in particular the contribution of the project to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably of the Capability Development Plan, and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 770

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Susana Solís Pérez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) duly consider the guidance provided in the context of the Defence Industrial Readiness Board, in particular the contribution of the project to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably of the Capability Development Plan, and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence;	(a) duly consider the guidance provided in the context of the Defence Industrial Readiness Board, in particular the contribution of the project to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably of the Capability Development Plan, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence, Permanent Structured Cooperation projects and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence, as well as the successful programmes derived from the European Defence Fund and NATO assessments;

Or. en

Amendment 771

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) duly consider the guidance provided in the context of the Defence Industrial Readiness Board, in particular the contribution of the project to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably of the Capability Development Plan, and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence;	(a) duly consider the guidance provided in the context of the Defence Industrial Readiness Board, in particular the contribution of the project to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably the White Paper on Security and Defence, the Defence Investment Gaps Analysis, the Capability Development Plan, and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence;

Or. en

Amendment 772

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) take into consideration already successful programs derived from the European Defence Fund;

Or. en

Amendment 773

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) duly consider the funding priorities as laid out in article 4 (1a);

Or. en

Amendment 774

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a b) duly consider PESCO and EDF projects that address these priorities;

Or. en

Amendment 775

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Alberico Gambino, Cristian Terheş, Carlo Ciccioli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) identify overall financing needs and potential impacts for the Union budget;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 776

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) identify overall financing needs and potential impacts for the Union budget;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 777

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Alberico Gambino, Cristian Terheş, Carlo Ciccioli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) take into account any views of Member States.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 778

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) take into account any views of Member States.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 779

Wouter Beke

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) take into account any views of Member States.	(c) take into account any views of Member States, while safeguarding a level-playing field, in particular for SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps.

Or. en

Amendment 780

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) take into account any views of Member States.	(c) duly consider any views of Member States.

Or. en

Amendment 781

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Christian Ehler, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) take into account the participating Member States’ high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats;

Or. en

Amendment 782

Andrey Novakov, Eva Maydell, Andrey Kovatchev, Ilia Lazarov, Radan Kanev, Ivaylo Valchev, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Emil Radev, Eszter Lakos, Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Paulius Saudargas, Marta Wcisło

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) specifically target Member States along NATO’s Eastern flank, bordering Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Black Sea.

Or. en

Amendment 783

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) take into account the views of the European Union Military Committee;

Or. en

Amendment 784

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) consult the European Parliament.

Or. en

Amendment 785

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c b) duly take into consideration specific recommendations by the European Parliament, in particular where those concern actions or intended actions of a strategic nature;

Or. en

Amendment 786

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. European Defence Projects of Common Interest shall meet the following general criteria:	3. 3. The Council, acting upon a proposal of the Commission, may adopt implementing acts identifying a list of EDPCIs.
	3a. Before proposing such implementing acts, the Commission shall:
	(a) consult Member States in an inclusive manner and take into account their views and project proposals for possible EDPCIs;
	(b) verify that all Member States and associated countries were informed of the emergence of a project and were given the opportunity to participate;

Or. en

Amendment 787

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. European Defence Projects of Common Interest shall meet the following general criteria:	3. European Defence Project of Common Interest shall consist of collaborative industrial projects aimed at reinforcing the competitiveness of the EDTIB throughout the Union the Union while contributing to the development of Member States’ military capabilities and systems of common interest and/or use, including those securing access to all operational domains (i.e. land, maritime, air, space, cyber). European Defence Projects of Common Interest shall meet the following general criteria:

Or. en

Amendment 788

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the project aims at developing capabilities, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use;	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 789

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the project aims at developing capabilities, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use;	(a) the project aims at developing capabilities related to existing or new key defence products, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use, and significantly contributes to competitiveness, resilience and autonomy of EDTIB;

Or. en

Amendment 790

Nathalie Loiseau, Ivars Ijabs, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Bart Groothuis, Marjan Šarec, Christophe Grudler, Petras Auštrevičius, Lucia Yar, Sigrid Friis, Michał Kobosko, Engin Eroglu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the project aims at developing capabilities, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use;	(a) the project aims at developing capabilities, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use and strengthening Eastern border Defence;

Or. en

Amendment 791

Riho Terras, Jüri Ratas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) the project aims at developing capabilities, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use;	(a) the project aims at developing capabilities, including those securing access to strategic domains and contested spaces, conventional land-domain capabilities, strategic enablers, and, as appropriate, systems acting as European defence infrastructure of common interest and use;

Or. en

Justification

Alignment with NATO capability objectives

Amendment 792

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) contribute to the overall defence readiness of the EU and its Member States by 2030;

Or. en

Amendment 793

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) the project pursue coherence of output with NATO Defence Planning Process;

Or. en

Amendment 794

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a b) the projects shall significantly strengthen the competitiveness, efficiency and innovation capacity of the European Defence Industrial Technological Base, notably by contributing to the establishment of new or the broadening of existing cross-border cooperation, including with SMEs and mid-caps, creating positive spill-over effects on the internal market, and by aiming at gradually reducing strategic dependencies, including by means of supply diversification, and scaling up capacities;

Or. en

Amendment 795

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a b) improve interoperability and interchangeability between the armed forces of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 796

Roberto Vannacci, Paolo Borchia

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) the potential overall benefits of the project outweigh its costs, including in the longer term.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 797

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b a) the project contributes to the interoperability and interchangeability of key defence products, facilitate the implementation of military standards, and significantly contributes to market integration and consolidation by reducing the number of different key defence products across the Union addressing similar operational needs;

Or. en

Amendment 798

Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b a) the projects shall contribute to the further integration of the Internal Market for defence products by facilitating access to defence supply chains, in particular for SMEs and mid-caps.

Or. en

Amendment 799

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	For Member States being the members of the NATO the project shall fulfill the requirements stemming from NATO developed standardization agreements STANAGs.

Or. en

Amendment 800

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b a) the project respects the eligibility criteria as set forth in this regulation.

Or. en

Amendment 801

Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b b) the projects shall make work share arrangements to enhance cross border industrial collaboration, on the basis of the following principles:
	· industrial collaboration is set up in a fair, balanced and inclusive way among the members
	· suppliers from all member have an equal chance of entering the supply chain of the contractor applying the concept of best value (price, quality, delivery time)
	· members' industrial participation follow the capabilities of their respective industries;
	· involvement of SMEs and mid-caps from all members is promoted.

Or. en

Amendment 802

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b b) the project takes into consideration climate change in all its aspects, and includes mitigation and adaptation policies;

Or. en

Amendment 803

Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b c) (e) Member States uphold a global balance of work share across all European Defence Projects of Common Interest.

Or. en

Amendment 804

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(b c) the project ensures a broad geographical diversity and geographical balance.

Or. en

Amendment 805

Michał Dworczyk, Adam Bielan

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least four Member States. The European Commission shall be able, where relevant, to participate in the project.	4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least four Member States. In the case of a Member State whose defence expenditure, expressed as a percentage of GDP and calculated in accordance with NATO methodology, is at least 2%, each additional full 1% above this threshold will be counted as if another Member State had joined the project. The European Commission shall be able, where relevant, to participate in the project.

Or. en

Amendment 806

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least four Member States. The European Commission shall be able, where relevant, to participate in the project.	4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least eight Member States or at least four Member States that are located on the EU’s external border. The European Commission shall be able, where relevant, to participate in the project.

Or. en

Amendment 807

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least four Member States. The European Commission shall be able, where relevant, to participate in the project.	4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least four Member States. The Member States may unanimously decide to invite the Commission to participate in the project as an observer.

Or. en

Amendment 808

Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least four Member States. The European Commission shall be able, where relevant, to participate in the project.	4. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall involve at least three Member States.

Or. en

Amendment 809

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	4 a. By way of derogation from paragraph 4, a European Defence Project of Common Interest may as well address the development or acquisition of capabilities for the European Union and its institutions and agencies. In such a case, the Project will be deemed to involve all Member States.

Or. en

Amendment 810

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	4 a. Member States involved in an EDPCI shall adopt a common approach on exports of the relevant defence products, in full compliance with the Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP.

Or. en

Amendment 811

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 4 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	4 a. Participation in this procurement shall respect the eligibility criteria laid down under this regulation.

Or. en

Amendment 812

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Alberico Gambino, Cristian Terheş, Carlo Ciccioli

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
5. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall be considered to contribute to the defence capabilities critical for the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States and therefore to be in the public interest. They may be established in the framework of Structures for European Armament Programmes referred to in Chapter 3.	5. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall be considered to contribute to the defence capabilities critical for the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States and therefore to be in the public interest. The projects shall contribute to the capability priority identified in the context of the CFSP, notably of the Capability Development Plan, and the objectives of the Strategic Compass for security and defence, the European Defence Industrial Strategy and the European Union Maritime Security Strategy. They may be established in the framework of Structures for European Armament Programmes referred to in Chapter 3.

Or. en

Justification

Fragment moved from paragraph 2

Amendment 813

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 5

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
5. A European Defence Project of Common Interest shall be considered to contribute to the defence capabilities critical for the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States and therefore to be in the public interest. They may be established in the framework of Structures for European Armament Programmes referred to in Chapter 3.	5. By derogation of paragraph 4, a European Defence Project of Common Interest may as well adress the development or acquisition of capabilities for the European Union and its institutions and agencies. In such case, the Project will be deemed to involved all Member States.

Or. en

Amendment 814

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 8

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
8. The deployment of European Defence Projects of Common Interest may be considered an imperative reason of overriding public interest within the meaning of Article 6(4) and Article 16(1), point (c), of Directive 92/43/EEC and of overriding public interest within the meaning of Article 4(7) of Directive 2000/60. Therefore, the planning, construction and operation of related production facilities may be considered of overriding public interest, provided that the remaining other conditions set out in these provisions are fulfilled.	deleted

Or. en

Amendment 815

Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 8

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
8. The deployment of European Defence Projects of Common Interest may be considered an imperative reason of overriding public interest within the meaning of Article 6(4) and Article 16(1), point (c), of Directive 92/43/EEC and of overriding public interest within the meaning of Article 4(7) of Directive 2000/60. Therefore, the planning, construction and operation of related production facilities may be considered of overriding public interest, provided that the remaining other conditions set out in these provisions are fulfilled.	8. The deployment of European Defence Projects of Common Interest may be considered an imperative reason of overriding public interest within the meaning of Article 6(4) and Article 16(1), point (c), of Directive 92/43/EEC, of overriding public interest within the meaning of Article 4(7) of Directive 2000/60 and of overriding public interest within the meaning of aticle 15(7), point (c) of Directive 2010/75/EU . Therefore, the planning, construction and operation of related production facilities may be considered of overriding public interest, provided that the remaining other conditions set out in these provisions are fulfilled. These projects and the related production facilities may also be considered to fall under Article 1(3) of Directive 2011/92/EU.

Or. en

Justification

Recognizing the urgency of boosting defense industrial capacity, faster permitting to scale up production facilities is essential. Therefore this amendment reiterates another existing overriding public interest derogation for Directive 2010/75/EU Industrial Emissions Directive, and to fall under an existing derogation of Article 1(3) of Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, which states that Member States may decide, on a case-by-case basis if so provided under national law, not to apply this Directive to projects serving national defence purposes.

Amendment 816

Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 8 a (new)

Regulation (EU) 1013/2006

Article 1, Paragraph 3, Point (g) is amended

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 a. Regulation (EU) 1013/2006, Article 1, Paragraph 3, Point (g) is amended as follows:
	(a) imports into the Community of waste generated by armed forces or relief organisations in the run-up to a crisis, during situations of crisis, or in peacemaking or peacekeeping operations, where such waste is shipped, by the armed forces or relief organisations concerned or on their behalf, directly or indrectly to the country of destination. In such cases, any competent authority or transit and the competent authority of destination of the Community shall be informed in advance concering the shipment and its destination.

Or. en

Justification

The text *in the run-up to a crisis* is added to the existing language of Article 1(3)(g) of (EU) 1013/2006 on shipments of waste. So far, there is no exception for the readiness of armed forces in the up to a crisis, only during a crisis.

Amendment 817

Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 8 b (new)

Regulation (EU) 2019/1021

Article 7, Paragraph 4

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 b. Regulation (EU) 2019/1021, Article 7, Paragraph 4 is amended as follows:
	“(ba) Member States may decide, on a case-by-case basis and if so provided under national law, not to apply this Regulation to European Defence Projects of Common Interest project, or parts of projects having defence as their sole purpose, or to projects having the response to civil emergencies as their sole purpose, if they deem that such application would have an adverse effect on those purposes.“

Or. en

Justification

This amendment creates a derogation for the EDPCI projects in the Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on persistent organic pollutants. The language of the amendment is based on similar language used to create defence derogations in other legislation.

Amendment 818

Bart Groothuis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 15 – paragraph 8 c (new)

Directive 2008/98/EC

Article 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	8 c. Directive 2008/98/EC, Article 2 is amended as follows:
	“2(h) waste from defence equipment, including military vehicles, aircraft, naval vessels, ammunition, ballistic and propulsion materials.“

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Justification

This amendment excludes defense equipment from the scope Directive 2008/98 on waste. So far, only decommissioned explosives are excluded.

Amendment 819

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) defence industrial readiness: contribution to competitiveness, increase production capacities, reduce lead times, eliminate bottlenecks thereby increasing interoperability and interchangeability;	(a) defence industrial readiness: contribution to competitiveness, increase production capacities, reduce lead times, eliminate bottlenecks thereby increasing interoperability and interchangeability, and improve the geographical concentration of manufacturing and stockpiling capacities, in particular in Union areas most directly suffering from capability gaps, needs and shortages;

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Amendment 820

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(a) defence industrial readiness: contribution to competitiveness, increase production capacities, reduce lead times, eliminate bottlenecks thereby increasing interoperability and interchangeability;	(a) defence industrial readiness: contribution to competitiveness, increase production capacities, ensuring stocks of raw materials and parts necessary for production in the short and medium term, to avoid possible production failures, reduce lead times, eliminate bottlenecks thereby increasing interoperability and interchangeability;

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Amendment 821

Rasa Juknevičienė

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) While assessing the proposal on the basis of the criteria listed in paragraph 1, preference shall be granted to proposals of Member States exposed to the materialisation of conventional military threats, such as that of invasion and to Member States which have already provided exceptionally extensive resources to offer military support to Ukraine for safeguarding its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity;

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Amendment 822

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) defence industrial inclusiveness: contribution to the development of EDITB across the Union, based on a balanced sharing of the technological, industrial and workload aspects among the participants.

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Amendment 823

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Christian Ehler, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) the action’s contribution to the replenishment of defence products in short supply, including by taking into account the response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine;

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Amendment 824

Eszter Lakos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) defence industrial sovereignty: contribution to the reduction of dependencies on products not developed by entities located in the Member States or in associated countries.

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Amendment 825

Petras Auštrevičius

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability, geographic balance to avoid concentration of military production lines in a few countries or regions and to prevent single sources of military supplies and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.

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Amendment 826

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources, unless they are located within the EU and a Member State justifies that they are needed to cover its strategic needs. .

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Amendment 827

Michał Dworczyk, Adam Bielan

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and reduced dependency on sources from non-associated third countries, that are neither NATO allies nor like-minded partners.

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Amendment 828

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Christian Ehler, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats or geographic proximity to conflict areas, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.

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Amendment 829

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular in Member States suffering from high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.

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Amendment 830

Jorge Buxadé Villalba

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats.

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Amendment 831

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.	(b) defence industrial resilience: contribution to resilience all across regions, increase timely availability and supply to all locations, strengthening security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats, and the non-dependency on non-associated third country sources.

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Amendment 832

Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine or Moldova and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine or Moldova, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain; particular attention should be given to Member States located in the proximity of conventional military confrontation zones which have a hightened interest in addressing security challenges;

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Amendment 833

Petras Auštrevičius

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, or potentially other EU candidate countries, and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, or potentially other EU candidate countries, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;

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Amendment 834

Nicolás Pascual de la Parte

on behalf of the Committee on Security and Defence

Susana Solís Pérez

on behalf of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as partners, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;

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Amendment 835

Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Susana Solís Pérez

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as partners, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;

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Amendment 836

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs and mid-caps as recipients, as partners, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;

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Amendment 837

András Gyürk, György Hölvényi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States and associated countries and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States and associated countries, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;

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Amendment 838

Roberto Vannacci

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States, associated countries or Ukraine and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries or Ukraine, involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;	(c) defence industrial cooperation: fostering genuine armament cooperation among Member States and associated countries and development and operationalisation of cross-border cooperation between undertakings established in different Member States, associated countries; involving in particular, to a significant extent, SMEs, small mid-caps and other mid-caps as recipients, as subcontractors or as other undertakings in the supply chain;

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Amendment 839

Eero Heinäluoma

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) the proposal’s contribution to strengthening the Union’s and Member States’ response to the current European threat landscape, in particular their exposure to the risk of materialisation of threats to their security and sovereignty, including by facilitating the operationalisation of Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the Union's mutual assistance clause to ensure solidarity among Member States, especially those whose geographical position leaves them directly exposed to imminent threats and challenges;

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Amendment 840

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) defence climate-proofing: contribution to climate-preparedness of EDTIB via specific mitigation and adaptation to climate change provisions, including for greater resilience to possible extreme weather events in different geographies, and greater efficiency of use of natural resources in operation;

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Amendment 841

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) defence expenditure commitment: participation of entities from Member States whose defence expenditure, as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and calculated in accordance with NATO's established methodology, exceeds the median defence expenditure of all Member States;

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Amendment 842

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) defence expenditure commitment: participation of entities from Member States whose defence expenditure, as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and calculated in accordance with NATO's established methodology, exceeds the median defence expenditure of all Member States;

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Amendment 843

Sebastiaan Stöteler, Pierre-Romain Thionnet

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) (e) proposals for common procurement actions may additionally be evaluated based on the following criteria: contribution to cross-border defence industrial cooperation throughout the Union, improving the opening up of supply chains and the inclusion of SMEs and mid-caps'.

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Amendment 844

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) under equivalent conditions, technical and operational performance, delivery time and quality, the Member States and the European institutions shall systematically give preference to companies established in the European Union, as defined in Article 2;

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Amendment 845

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) (e) geographical balance: distribution of benefits across the European Union defence industrial value chains, preventing overconcentration of activities in a limited number of Member States.

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Amendment 846

Inese Vaidere

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the physical location of the project: the preference shall be granted to proposals of Member States exposed to the materialisation of conventional military threats, such as that of invasion.

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Amendment 847

Eszter Lakos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the number of participating Member States and entities located therein operating in the defence supply chains.

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Amendment 848

Raphaël Glucksmann, Thijs Reuten, Tobias Cremer, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Elio Di Rupo, Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the additionality delivered by the proposal.

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Amendment 849

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d b) at least 65% of the cost of components and services purchased or financed under the programme must be produced by eligible companies in accordance with Article 2. Awarding authorities are invited to gradually aim for a higher percentage, which should eventually reach 80% for new products.

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Amendment 850

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d b) prevention of concentration of funds: supporting a balanced distribution of funding, by contributing to a more diversified geographic and industrial participation in the Programme and preventing concentration of funds among a limited number of entities or Member States.

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Amendment 851

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d b) diversification of production capabilities: supporting the development of production capabilities that were previously unavailable to the applying entity, thereby increasing resilience, diversifying production, and enhancing security of supply in crisis situations;

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Amendment 852

Eszter Lakos

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d b) the number of participating defence companies located in Member States or associated countries that were not previously part of defence supply chains.

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Amendment 853

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d c) addressing Member State capability gaps: contribution to the development of new capabilities in Member States where such capacities are absent or limited, by supporting projects in countries that currently lack existing production, maintenance, or technological capabilities for the defence product or technology concerned;

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Amendment 854

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d d (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d d) prevention of funding concentration: bolsters a balanced distribution of funding, contributes to a more diversified geographic and industrial participation in the Programme and prevents concentration of funds among a limited number of entities, Member States, or specific regions.

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Amendment 855

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. In addition to the criteria set out in paragraph 1, proposals for common procurement actions referred to in Article 11, paragraph 2 shall be evaluated based on the following criteria:
	(a) the number of participating Member States or associated countries; and
	(b) the action’s contribution to the adaptation, modernisation and development of the EDTIB; and/or
	(c) the action’s contribution to the replenishment of defence products in short supply, including by taking into account the response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

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Amendment 856

Radan Kanev

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. While assessing the proposal based on the criteria listed in paragraph 1, priority should be granted to proposals submitted by Member States most vulnerable to the materialization of conventional military threats, including potential invasion. This particularly concerns Member States bordering Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Black Sea. Additionally, special consideration should be given to Member States that have already committed, or are planning to commit substantial resources to provide military support to Ukraine in its efforts to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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Amendment 857

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. Proposals for actions shall be coherent with the Strategic Compass for Security and Defence, take into account the opportunities for collaboration in the frame of the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and be in line with the defence capability priorities commonly agreed by Member States within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), in particular in the context of the Capability Development Plan.

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Amendment 858

Yannis Maniatis, Giorgio Gori, Bruno Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. Proposals who were assessed positively under EDIRPA Regulation (EU) 2023/2418 but they were not financed due to budgetary constraints, can be financed under this regulation, if they comply with the relevant award criteria.

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Amendment 859

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. While assessing the proposal on the basis of the criteria listed in paragraph 1, preference shall be granted to proposals of Member States exposed to the materialisation of conventional military threats

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Amendment 860

Jan Farský

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. (e) contribution to the security of supply chains and the reduction of dependence on malign actors with a focus on the sourcing of critical minerals and raw materials.

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Amendment 861

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 b. In addition to the criteria set out in paragraph 1, proposals for common procurement actions referred to in Article 11(2) shall be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
	(a) the number of participating Member States or associated countries;
	(b) the action’s contribution to the adaptation, modernisation and development of the EDTIB;
	(c) the action’s contribution to the replenishment of defence products in short supply, including by taking into account the response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine;
	(d) the participation of SMEs and mid-caps;
	(e) the action's contribution to the cross-border cooperation in the supply chains throughout the Union;
	(f) the action's contribution to increasing the timely availability of defence products;
	(g) the participating Member States’ high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats.

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Amendment 862

Jan Farský

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 b. 3. In addition to the criteria set out in paragraph 1, proposals for industrial reinforcement actions referred to Article 13 shall be evaluated based on at least two of the following criteria:
	(a) reduction of lead production time and increase in production capacity in the Union, reserved capacity, and workforce skilled;
	(b) contribution to ensuring availability and security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats;
	(c) contribution to cross-border defence industrial cooperation throughout the Union, improving the inclusion of SMEs and mid-caps or link with orders stemming from common procurement of defence products by at least three Member States or associated countries.

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Amendment 863

Adam Bielan, Elena Donazzan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 b. In addition to the criteria set out in paragraph 1, proposals for industrial reinforcement actions referred to in Article 11, paragraph 3 shall be evaluated based on one or more of the following criteria:
	(a) reduction of lead production time and increase in production capacity in the Union, reserved capacity, and workforce skilled;
	(b) contribution to ensuring availability and security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats;
	(c) contribution to cross-border defence industrial cooperation throughout the Union, improving the inclusion of SMEs and mid-caps.

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Amendment 864

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Michał Kobosko, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 1 c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 c. In addition to the criteria set out in paragraph 1, proposals for industrial reinforcement actions referred to in Article 11(3) shall be evaluated based on one or more of the following criteria:
	(a) reduction of lead production time and increase in production capacity in the Union, reserved capacity and skilled workforce;
	(b) contribution to ensuring availability and security of supply throughout the Union in response to identified risks, including in particular high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats;
	(c) contribution to cross-border cooperation in the defence industry throughout the Union, improving the inclusion of SMEs and mid-caps, or link with orders stemming from the common procurement of defence products by at least three Member States or associated countries;
	(d) the participating Member States’ high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats.

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Amendment 865

Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. The work programme shall lay down further details concerning the application of the award criteria laid down in paragraph 1, including any weighting to be applied. The work programme shall not set individual thresholds.	2. The work programme shall lay down further details concerning the application of the award criteria laid down in paragraph 1, including any weighting to be applied. For actions referred to in article 12 the work programme should provide for rewarding the largest possible amount of projects that fulfil eligibility criteria and duly demonstrate their contribution to the objectives of the Programme.

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Amendment 866

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 16 – paragraph 2

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. The work programme shall lay down further details concerning the application of the award criteria laid down in paragraph 1, including any weighting to be applied. The work programme shall not set individual thresholds.	2. The work programme shall lay down further details concerning the application of the award criteria laid down in paragraph 1, including any weighting to be applied. The work programme shall not set individual thresholds. The conditions for dealing with ex aequo proposals shall include a criterion related to geographical diversity.

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Amendment 867

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. By way of derogation from Article 190 of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046, the Programme may finance up to 100 % of the eligible costs. However, for activities referred to in Article 11(3) the support from the Programme shall not exceed 35 % of the eligible costs.	1. By way of derogation from Article 190 of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046, the Programme may finance up to 100 % of the eligible costs. However, for activities referred to in Article 11(3) the support from the Programme shall not exceed 25 % of the eligible costs. For activities referred to in Article 11(2) the support shall not exceed 10% of the estimated value of the common procurement contract.

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Amendment 868

Riho Terras, Jüri Ratas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. By way of derogation from Article 190 of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046, the Programme may finance up to 100 % of the eligible costs. However, for activities referred to in Article 11(3) the support from the Programme shall not exceed 35 % of the eligible costs.	1. By way of derogation from Article 190 of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046, the Programme may finance up to 100 % of the eligible costs. However, for activities referred to in Article 11(3) the support from the Programme shall not exceed 45 % of the eligible costs.

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Justification

EU support should be at least 45% for the incentive factor to be stronger. If it is less, then more projects can be financed, but the downside is that the incentive effect is significantly weakened and will not change behavior on the market. One of the criticisms of the Niinistö report is that the EU money is spread too thin between too many projects and thus has a limited effect.

Amendment 869

Yannis Maniatis, Giorgio Gori, Bruno Gonçalves

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 1

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
1. By way of derogation from Article 190 of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046, the Programme may finance up to 100 % of the eligible costs. However, for activities referred to in Article 11(3) the support from the Programme shall not exceed 35 % of the eligible costs.	1. By way of derogation from Article 190 of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046, the Programme may finance up to 100 % of the eligible costs. However, for activities referred to in Article 11(3) the support from the Programme shall not exceed 50 % of the eligible costs.

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Amendment 870

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. The Union contribution through the financial envelope defined in article 5(1) shall support:
	(a) actions pursuant to Article 11 (2) with at least 25%;
	(b) actions pursuant to Article 11 (4) and 11 (5) f with at least 35%.

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Amendment 871

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 a. in order to strengthen their military capacity and the strategic autonomy of the Union, the Member States have a drawing right on the overall financing of the programme proportional to their annual contribution to the Union budget.

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Amendment 872

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 1 b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	1 b. Union financial contribution is modulated according to the national priorities of the Member States. The work programmes shall specify how this principle is to be applied.

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Amendment 873

Sarah Knafo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria:	2. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria, within the limits and conditions defined by the work programmes so that the priority given to European defence projects is not to the detriment of national defence projects:

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Amendment 874

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria:	2. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate of 10 percentage points, where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria:

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Amendment 875

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
2. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria:	2. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate of up to 10% where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria:

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Amendment 876

Pierre-Romain Thionnet

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) the action taken relates to a product where the cost of components originating from the Union or associated countries is higher than 80% of the estimated value of the end product;

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Amendment 877

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(a a) the action contributes to the strategic autonomy of the Union through strengthening the autonomy and non-dependency on non-associated country sources for the EDTIB;

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Amendment 878

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) Ukraine is the recipient of defence products produced or procured under the Programme and those products are subject to financial support under the European Peace Facility;	deleted

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Amendment 879

András Gyürk, György Hölvényi

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) Ukraine is the recipient of defence products produced or procured under the Programme and those products are subject to financial support under the European Peace Facility;	deleted

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Amendment 880

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point b

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(b) Ukraine is the recipient of defence products produced or procured under the Programme and those products are subject to financial support under the European Peace Facility;	(b) Moldova is a recipient of additional quantities of defence products in the procurement action or Ukraine is the recipient of defence products produced or procured under the Programme and those products are subject to financial support under the European Peace Facility;

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Amendment 881

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	deleted

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Amendment 882

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP), in full compliance with the set of criteria established under the Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP;

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Amendment 883

Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP) and reuses the resulting benefits in European industry;

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Amendment 884

Yannis Maniatis, Giorgio Gori

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	(c) Member States agree to implement the Common Position 2008/944/CFSP, as the common rules to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);

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Amendment 885

Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	(c) Member States can agree, while not being mandatory, on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);

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Amendment 886

Raphaël Glucksmann, Thijs Reuten, Tobias Cremer, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Elio Di Rupo, Yannis Maniatis

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	(c) Member States agree on common rules for exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);

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Amendment 887

Marc Botenga

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(c) Member States agree on a common approach to exports for defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);	(c) Member States agree not to engage in the export of defence products developed and procured in the context of a Structure for European Armament Programme (SEAP);

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Amendment 888

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) Member States participating in a SEAP develop a joint, harmonized and under the respective national laws mutually recognized certification scheme for the introduction of new defence systems into their armed forces;

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Amendment 889

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c a) the action demonstrate a contribution to creation of new cross-border cooperation between entities established in Member States and associated countries;

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Amendment 890

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c b) the action demonstrates contribution to the replenishment of stockpiles, including those depleted as a result of the response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine;

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Amendment 891

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c c (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c c) the action demonstrates contribution to support deterrence needs of Member States directly exposed to conventional military threats or affected by increased security threats due to proximity to military operations areas or destabilizing actions;

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Amendment 892

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c d (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c d) one or more beneficiary of the action is an entity located in a Member States whose defence expenditure as a percentage of GDP, calculated according to NATO methodology, exceeds or is at least equal to the NATO guideline of 2%;

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Amendment 893

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c e (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c e) the action involves building a new infrastructure, facilities or production lines from the ground u or on sites previously not used for such activities, contributing to the development of supply chains and technology transfer throughout the Union;

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Amendment 894

Adam Bielan

on behalf of the ECR Group

Rihards Kols, Michał Dworczyk, Daniel Obajtek, Alexandr Vondra, Ondřej Krutílek, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Reinis Pozņaks, Cristian Terheş

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point c f (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(c f) the action contributes to the establishment of new or the ramping up of existing manufacturing capacities of crisis relevant products;

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Amendment 895

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the beneficiary is an SME or small mid-cap or the majority of beneficiaries participating in a consortium are SMEs or small mid-caps.	(d) the beneficiary is an SME or small mid-cap.

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Amendment 896

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
(d) the beneficiary is an SME or small mid-cap or the majority of beneficiaries participating in a consortium are SMEs or small mid-caps.	(d) the beneficiary is an SME or mid-cap or the majority of beneficiaries participating in a consortium are SMEs or mid-caps.

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Amendment 897

Nathalie Loiseau, Ivars Ijabs, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Marjan Šarec, Christophe Grudler, Lucia Yar, Michał Kobosko, Engin Eroglu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) The action is related to a defence product that is free of control or restriction by non-associated third countries or by non-associated third-country entities, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediate legal entities, including in terms of technology transfer.

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Amendment 898

Sebastiaan Stöteler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) (e) the action ensures a wide distribution of suppliers across Member States whereby more than 20% of the total value of the end product comes from suppliers established in a Member State other than the one where the contractor is established.

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Amendment 899

François-Xavier Bellamy, Paulius Saudargas, Virgil-Daniel Popescu

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the cost of the common procurement actions’ components originating from the Union or associated countries is higher than 80 % of the estimated value of the end product.

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Amendment 900

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the action is carried out by a large consortium of eligible entities which are established in different Member States or associated countries.

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Amendment 901

Hannah Neumann, Virginijus Sinkevičius

on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the action leads to the reduction of actual number of similar key defence products fulfilling similar operational duties, on the Union market.

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Amendment 902

Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Borys Budka, Marta Wcisło, Mirosława Nykiel, Michał Szczerba, Krzysztof Hetman, Dariusz Joński, Adam Jarubas

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the action concerns one or more Member States with a high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats.

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Amendment 903

Inese Vaidere

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the action concerns one or more Member States with a high exposure to the risk of materialisation of conventional military threats.

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Amendment 904

Christophe Gomart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(da) the cost of components originating in the Union or associated countries exceeds 80% of the estimated value of the end product;

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Amendment 905

José Cepeda, Javi López, Lina Gálvez, Nicolás González Casares, Laura Ballarín Cereza, Elena Sancho Murillo

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(d a) the high percentage of the cost of components originating in the Union or in associated countries;

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Amendment 906

Christophe Gomart

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	(db) the aim of the action is to reduce a high risk of dependence on equipment from third countries within a specific capacity segment, as mapped by the Commission.

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Amendment 907

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
	2 a. An action shall be eligible for an increased funding rate of up to 15% where it fulfils one or more of the following criteria:
	(a) Ukraine is the recipient of defence products produced or procured under the Programme
	(b) beneficiaries of actions pursuant to article 11 (3) and economic actors participating in actions pursuant to article 11 (2) and (4) undertake efforts to replace non-EU components by components of EU origin in order to increase the share of components of EU origin to 80% of the value of the of the estimated cost of the end product;
	(c) at least three Member States and associated countries participating in actions pursuant to article 11 (2) and article 15 have a common border with Russia or with countries aggressed by Russia, or have their territorial waters or exclusive economic zones adjacent to those of Russia or the countries aggressed by Russia;
	(d) the construction of new production capacities in a Member State that did not have such capacities before in the context of actions pursuant to article 11 (2) and (3).

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Amendment 908

Jan Farský

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. The work programme shall lay down further details, including, where relevant, the increased funding rates referred to in paragraph 3.	3. The work programme shall provide for rewarding the largest possible amount of joint procurement projects that fulfil eligibility criteria and duly demonstrate their contribution to the objectives of the Programme.

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Amendment 909

Michael Gahler

Proposal for a regulation

Article 17 – paragraph 3

Text proposed by the Commission	Amendment
3. The work programme shall lay down further details, including, where relevant, the increased funding rates referred to in paragraph 3.	3. The work programme shall lay down further details, including, where relevant, the increased funding rates referred to in paragraph 3 and 4.

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