What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Removed:(-1a) Article 5 is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘The Fund shall be open to the participation of Ukraine and members of the European Free Trade Association which are members of the EEA, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the Agreement on the European Economic Area (associated countries).’

Removed:(1) Article 6 is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘Article 6

Removed:Support for disruptive technologies for defence

Removed:1. The Commission shall support actions that are conducive to developing disruptive technologies for defence in the areas of intervention defined in the work programmes referred to in Article 24.

Removed:2. The work programmes shall lay down the most appropriate forms of funding, selection and award criteria and procedures, and implementation for disruptive technologies for defence.’;

Removed:(2) the following Article is inserted:

Removed:‘Article 8a

Removed:Cumulative funding and transfers of resources

Removed:1. An action that has received a contribution from another Union programme may also receive a contribution under the Programme, provided that the contributions do not cover the same costs. The rules of the relevant Union programme shall apply to the corresponding contribution to the action. The support from the different Union programmes may be calculated on a pro-rata basis in accordance with the documents setting out the conditions for support.

Removed:2. Resources allocated to Member States under shared management may, at the request of the Member State concerned, be transferred to the Programme subject to the conditions set out in the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 for 2021-2027. The Commission shall implement those resources directly in accordance with point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 62(1) of the Financial Regulation or indirectly in accordance with point (c) of that subparagraph. Such resources shall be used for the benefit of the Member State concerned, while ensuring the continued adherence to the programme’s established standards of excellence set out in Article 12.

Removed:Resources transferred in accordance to paragraph 2 of this Article may, by derogation from Article 13(2) of this Regulation, be used for the purpose of contributing to the funding of eligible actions under Article 10 of this Regulation up to 100 % of the eligible costs.

Removed:3. Where the Commission has not entered into a legal commitment under direct or indirect management for resources transferred in accordance with paragraph 3 and at the latest by 30 September 2027, the corresponding uncommitted resources may be transferred back to one or more respective source programmes, at the request of the Member State concerned, in accordance with the conditions set out in the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060.

Removed:4. Member States, European Union institutions, bodies and agencies, third countries, international organisations, international financial institutions or other third parties, may provide additional financial contributions to the Programme. Such financial contributions shall constitute external assigned revenue within the meaning of Article 21(2), points (a), (d), or (e) or Article 21(5) of the Financial Regulation.’;

Removed:(2a) in Article 10 (3), a new indent is added:

Removed:‘(ia) activities that foster collaboration between European and Ukrainian DTIBs around the development, prototyping, or testing of new products or technologies, including disruptive technologies for defence, and that facilitate progressive integration of industrial bases and technology transfers’;

Removed:(2b) Article 13( 2) is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article:

Removed:(a) for activities referred to in point (e) of Article 10(3), support from the Fund shall not exceed 20 % of the eligible costs, except where such activities are undertaken by a consortium composed exclusively of SMEs or small midcaps, the support, by derogation from first subparagraph of paragraph 3 of this article, may amount to up to 40% of the eligible costs,

Removed:(b) for activities referred to in points (f), (g) and (h) of Article 10(3), support from the Fund `shall not exceed 80 % of the eligible costs, except where activities referred to in Article 10(3), point (f), are undertaken by a consortium composed exclusively of SMEs or small midcaps, the support may amount to up to 100% of the eligible costs.’;

Removed:(2d) in Article 13( 3), the following point (d) is added:

Removed:‘(d) an activity may benefit from a funding rate increased by an additional 10 percentage points where at least 15 % of the total eligible costs of the activity are allocated to entity established in Ukraine’;

Removed:Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 [Connecting Europe Facility]is amended as follows:

Removed:(-1) in Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘1. The general objectives of the CEF are to build, develop, modernise and complete and make resilient the trans-European networks in the transport, energy and digital sectors and to facilitate cross-border cooperation in the field of renewable energy, taking into account the long-term decar­bonisation commitments and the goals of increasing European competi­tiveness; smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; territorial, social and economic cohesion; and the access to and integration of the internal market, with an emphasis on facilitating the synergies among the transport, energy and digital sectors.’;(1) Article 3(2) is amended as follows:

Removed:(a) in point (a), indent (ii) is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘(ii) to adapt parts of the TEN-T for the dual-use of the transport infrastructure with a view to improving both civilian and military mobility, including through the development of dual-use fuel infrastructure;’;(b) point (c) is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘(c ) in the digital sector: to contribute to the development of projects of common interest relating to the deployment of and access to safe and secure very high capacity networks, including 5G systems, to the set-up and deployment of digital capacities such as cloud, AI and AI Factories, including AI Gigafactories, to the increased resilience and capacity of digital backbone networks on Union territories by linking them to neighbouring territories, as well as to the secure digitalisation of transport and energy networks.’;

Removed:(2) in Article 8(4), the following point (f) is added:

Removed:‘(f) projects of common interest contributing to the set-up and deployment or significant upgrade of digital capacities, including cloud, AI and AI Gigafactories shall be prioritized according to the extent they significantly contribute to improve the performance, resilience and security of transport, energy and digital infrastructures that are critical for the implementation of the internal market.’;

Removed:(2a) in Article 9, paragraph 2, point (c) is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘(c) under the specific objective referred to in Article 3(2), point (a)(ii), and in accordance with Article 12, actions or specific activities within an action, supporting parts, new or existing, of the TEN-T suitable for military transport, in order to adapt the TEN-T to dual-use infrastructure requirements, including through the development of dual-use fuel infrastructure;’;

Removed:Such actions or specific activities within an action [pursuant to the first subparagraph of this point] may include, where relevant, measures to safeguard the infrastructure for civilian-defence dual-use with regard to military counter-mobility and related risks."

Removed:(2b) in Article 9, paragraph 4, point (d) is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘(d) actions supporting the protection, deployment of new or the significant upgrading of existing backbone networks or their repair, including submarine cables, within and between Member States and between the Union and third countries, such as the actions listed in Part V, point 3, of the Annex, as well as other actions supporting the deployment of backbone networks referred to in that point;’;

Removed:(3) in Article 9(4), the following point (f) is added:

Removed:‘(f) actions supporting the set-up and deployment of digital capacities in cloud, AI and AI Factories, including AI Gigafactories.’;

Removed:(3a) in Article 12, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘1. Actions contributing to the adaptation of the TEN-T core network or comprehensive network as defined by Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013, with the purpose of enabling civilian-defence dual-use of the infrastructure, including dual-use fuel infrastructure, shall be subject to the following additional eligibility rules:’;

Removed:(4) in Article 15 (2), the following point (ba) is added:

Removed:‘(ba) Subject to the transfer of the necessary resources to the CEF in the context of the mid-term review of programmes supported by the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund [add legal reference to Regulation adopted pursuant to COM(2025)123, 2025/0084 (COD)], pursuant to Article 4(13), for works relating to the specific objectives referred to in Article 3(2), point (a)(ii), the following conditions apply:

Removed:(i) co-financing rates may be increased to a maximum of 100%, in particular for projects related to hot-spots and cross border sections within four priority corridors Military Mobility Corridors identified by the Commission;

Removed:(ii) actions are entitled to a pre-financing payment representing at least [30%] of the amount allocated in the grant agreement;

Removed:(iii) actions shall be located on one or more of the four EU Priority Military Mobility Corridors identified by Member States in Annex II to the Military Requirements for Military Mobility within and beyond the Union, as adopted by the Council on [18 March 2025 and with reference ST 6728/25 ADD1], including logistic hubs, and prioritising actions applying to hot spots and cross-border sections of these corridors, and shall comply with the infrastructure requirements as set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1328. To protect the Union's strategic and economic security interests, where appropriate, preference shall be given to the purchase and use of materials, products and technologies which reduce strategic dependencies on third countries.’;

Removed:▌

Removed:Regulation (EU) 2024/795, [Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP)] is amended as follows:

Removed:(1) In Article 2(1), point (a), the following indent is added:

Removed:‘(iv) defence and security technologies including those enhancing societal resilience’;

Removed:(2) In Article 2(2), point (b) is replaced by the following:

Removed:‘(b) they contribute to reducing or preventing strategic dependencies and vulnerabilities of the Union."’

Removed:This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Removed:This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.

Removed:Done at …,

Removed:For the European Parliament For the Council

Removed:The President The President