Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0177(COD)
Simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and simplification of security and defence procurement (Omnibus V)
Amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC, as regards the simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and the simplification of security and defence procurement
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) 10 July 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 15 December 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 22 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 1
Economy & single market, New EU law
Simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and simplification of security and defence procurement (Omnibus V)
Passed 549 for · 92 against · 27 abstained by an overwhelming majority
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.
- Pekka Toveri (EPP), Anna-Maja Henriksson (Renew)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Yannis Maniatis (S&D), Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová (Patriots), Reinis Pozņaks (ECR), Lucia Yar (Renew), Hannah Neumann (Greens), Merja Kyllönen (The Left), Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz (EPP), Georgia Tramacere (S&D), Klara Dostalova (Patriots), Stefano Cavedagna (ECR), Reinier van Lanschot (Greens), Luke Ming Flanagan (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Industry, Research and Energy
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 16 Sept 2026
AI summary:Parliament's position at first reading on a directive amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC to simplify intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and security and defence procurement.
Tabled for plenary· 22 Dec 2025
AI summary:Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a directive amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC on intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and on security and defence procurement.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
16 September 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 16 Sept 2026 Adopted text TA10-0292/2026Report A10-0275/2025
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
9 September – 11 September 2026
72 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Committee stage 1 step
15 July 2026
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
Negotiations with the Council 6 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.
10 June 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
18 May 2026
Trilogue meeting
Negotiation between Parliament, Council and Commission on a common text.
24 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
22 December 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 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.
23 October 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of the committee proposed changes to the draft.
10 July 2025
Referred to the IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) gives an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0177(COD)