Changes between two versions
What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
From · plenary report· 19 Dec 2025
on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EC) No 1907/2006, (EC) No 1272/2008, (EU) No 528/2012, (EU) 2019/1021 and (EU) 2021/697 as regards defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for defence industry
To · adopted text· 16 Sept 2026
Defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for the defence industry (Omnibus V)
AI:What changed, in short
The new version broadens national defence exemptions in chemicals rules and drops detailed provisions on dual-use production lines, temporary repurposing, review and guidelines.68912 It adds European Defence Fund provisions on multiannual work programmes, disruptive technologies, SME actions, indirect management, testing in Ukraine, access rights and call-by-call award criteria.29303440 It raises the maximum additional funding rate for activities allocated to SMEs from 5 to 10 percentage points and drops simplified reporting requirements for SMEs.4243 It changes the provision on transfers and export policy to refer to endeavouring to use all tools at Member States' disposal and avoiding disproportionate administrative requirements.47 The other changes are formal or wording: updated headings, citations, cross-references, footnotes and rephrased provisions.1234
17 changes of substance · 17 formal · 19 of wording only
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+55 added · −65 removed · 39 changed paragraphs, packaging included.
Part 4 of 4: Paragraphs 181–212
Change 44
Changed:The funding rate may be increased by percentage points equivalent to twice the percentage of the total eligible costs of the activity allocated to cross-border SMEs as defined in Article 2, point (6a), which participate in the activity as recipients, subcontractors or other legal entities in the supply chain;’;▌.
Change 45
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Added:* Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/2315 of 11 December 2017 establishing permanent structured cooperation (PESCO) and determining the list of participating Member States (OJ L 331, 14.12.2017, p. 57, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2017/2315/oj).
Added:** Regulation (EU) 2025/2643 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2025 establishing the European Defence Industry Programme and a framework of measures to ensure the timely availability and supply of defence products (‘EDIP Regulation’) (OJ L, 2025/2643, 29.12.2025, ELI: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/2643/oj).’;
(9) in Article 14, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1. Notwithstanding Article 201 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509, only the financial capacity of a coordinator shall be verified.’;
(10) in Article 17(2), point (b) is replaced by the following:
Change 46
Changed:‘(b) may authorise, in specific cases, the award of multiple contracts within the same procedure (multiple sourcing)’;sourcing);’;
(11) Article 22 is deleted;
(12) Article 23 is amended as follows:
(a) paragraphs 3 and 4 are replaced by the following:
Change 47
Changed:‘3. This Regulation shall not affect the Member States’ discretion as regards their policy on the transfer and export of defence-related products. As regards transfers, Member States shall ▌useendeavour to use all tools at their disposal, such as general transfer licenceslicences, as referred to in Article 5 of Directive (EC) 2009/432009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council*Council*, and avoid disproportionate administrative pre-conditionsrequirements to ensure the smooth implementation of the actions.
Change 48
Changed:4. With regard to results generated by recipients through development actions supported by the Fund, and without prejudice to paragraph 3 of this Article, the Commission shall be notified prior to any transfer of ownership to a non-associated third country or to a non-associated third-country entity, which takes place within 3three years afterof the final payment of the action. If such a transfer of ownership contravenes the security and defence interests of the Union and its Member States or the objectives set out in Article 3, the support provided from the Fund shall be reimbursed.
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Added:________________
* Directive 2009/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 simplifying terms and conditions of transfers of defence-related products within the Community (OJ L 146, 10.6.2009, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/43/oj).’;
Change 49
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Added:(b) the following paragraph is added:
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Added:‘6. For the purpose of assessing the results of the development actions and assessing their potential use for public defence planning and capability development, the national authorities co-financing an action and the recipients generating the results shall engage in negotiations, with a view to the recipients granting access rights to those results to the national authorities under fair and reasonable conditions to be agreed upon with the recipients generating those results. Access rights shall not entail any transfer of ownership of IPRs or know-how contained therein, and shall be limited to non-commercial and non-competitive use. Those access rights shall not include background intellectual property except where strictly necessary for the purpose of understanding the results of the action and shall require the prior consent of the owners of such background intellectual property.
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Added:Terms and conditions for the exercise of such access rights shall be defined in the contractual relationship between the recipients and the national authorities co-financing the action.’;
(13) in Article 24, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
Change 50
Changed:‘1. The Fund shall be implemented by means of annual or multiannual work programmes as referred to in Article 110(2) of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509. Work programmes shall set out, where applicable, the overall amount reserved for blending operations.’.
Change 51
Added:Article 6
Added:Entry into force and application
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Change 52
Changed:Article 9(2) second subparagraph9(6), andthird Articlesubparagraph, 13▌ of the Regulation (EU) 2021/697, as amended by the presentthis Regulation, shall apply from 1 January 2025.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Change 53
Changed:Done at Strasbourg,…,
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