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European Union Space Services Agency and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/696

A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.

Where it stands: In committee: ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) is preparing the report (draft published 9 September 2026).

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 15 June 2026
  2. 2 Committee work ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) preparing the report
  3. 3 Tabled for plenary
  4. 4 Plenary vote
  5. 5 Negotiations with the Council
  6. 6 Published as law
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. For a law, Parliament’s adopted text is its first-reading position; Parliament and the Council then negotiate a common text (trilogues) which both must approve before it is published as law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
ITRE — Industry, Research and Energy
Rapporteur
Christophe GRUDLER Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Paulius SAUDARGAS PPEGiorgio GORI S&DJana NAGYOVÁ PfEOndřej KRUTÍLEK ECRSergey LAGODINSKY Verts/ALEMarina MESURE The Left

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Committee draft · latest Draft report (ITRE) 9 September 2026 ✦ This is the rapporteur's draft report on the proposed regulation on the European Union Space Services Agency, amending Regulation (EU) 2021/696. It proposes amendments to rename the Agency back to the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and to set out its objectives, tasks, governance and security accreditation rules.

Committee opinions: Draft opinion (BUDG)

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Committee stage
  2. 2 October 2026 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (ITRE)
  3. 9 September 2026 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (ITRE)
  4. 15 June 2026 Referred to the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.