Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0172(COD)
Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects
Ordinary legislative procedure (COD): Parliament and the Council decide together as equals. · First reading
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
Plenary vote
Parliament approved the text agreed with the Council on 16 September 2026. The Council must now adopt it formally before it is published as law.
- Referred to committee(done) 8 September 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 15 December 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 18 December 2025
- Negotiations with the Council(done) Deal approved in committee 24 June 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 16 September 2026
- Published as law(to come)
Decided in plenary
16 September 2026 · decision 2
Economy & single market, New EU law
Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects (Omnibus V)
Passed 540 for · 105 against · 22 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:This is Parliament's first reading position, and it usually needs to agree with the Council before the law is final.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Lucia Yar (Renew), Henrik Dahl (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Salvatore De Meo (EPP), Kristian Vigenin (S&D), Pierre-Romain Thionnet (Patriots), Michał Dworczyk (ECR), Reinier van Lanschot (Greens), Marc Botenga (The Left), Idoia Mendia (S&D), Klara Dostalova (Patriots), Nikola Minchev (Renew), Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety· rapporteurMep #257122 (S&D)
- Industry, Research and Energy
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 16 Sept 2026
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of a proposed regulation sets common rules to speed up national permit-granting for defence readiness projects.
Tabled for plenary· 18 Dec 2025
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on accelerating permit-granting for defence readiness projects. It sets a 50-working-day limit for permit decisions, allows limited extensions, and requires each member state to set up a single point of contact.
Committee opinions: Opinion (ENVI)
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
16 September 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 16 Sept 2026 Adopted text TA10-0291/2026Report A10-0271/2025
15 September 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 15 Sept 2026 Council / Commission text C10-0120/2025Council / Commission text C10-0121/2025Council / Commission text C10-0122/2025Report A10-0271/2025Report A10-0273/2025Report A10-0275/2025
8 September – 11 September 2026
65 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Negotiations with the Council 5 steps
24 June 2026
Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
19 May 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
23 March 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
26 January 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
21 January 2026
Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
Plenary stage 1 step
18 December 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
15 December 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
3 December 2025
ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
28 October 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
8 September 2025
Referred to the IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0172(COD)