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2026/0078(COD)COM(2026)135SEDE

Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)

Establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)

Stage
Council adoption, reached 22 Jul 2026
Procedure
Ordinary legislative procedure
Rapporteurs
Ivars Ijabs (Renew), Tonino Picula (S&D)
Lead DG
DG DEFIS
Commissioner
Andrius Kubilius
Last activity
2 Sept 2026
31 entries · record as of 14 Sept 2026

Where it stands

Latest: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible, 2 Sept 2026.

Show the earlier record: 12 dates, 26 Mar 2026 to 29 Jun 2026
  1. 26 Mar 2026
    • Adoption of legislative proposal by the Commission · Commission
  2. 31 Mar 2026
    • Deliberations in Council working party · Council
  3. 15 Apr 2026
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  4. 21 Apr 2026
    • Deliberations in Council working party · Council
  5. 27 Apr 2026
    • Referral of the legislative proposal to the EP committee responsible (announced in plenary) · Parliament
    • Referred to committee
  6. 5 May 2026
    • Deliberations in Council working party
  7. 13 May 2026
    • Committee amendments tabled
    • Tabling of amendments in the EP committee responsible · Parliament committee
  8. 22 May 2026
    • Deliberations in Council working party · Council
  9. 3 Jun 2026
    • Adoption of negotiating mandate by Coreper · Council
    • Consideration / exchange of views
  10. 25 Jun 2026
    • Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible · Parliament committee
    • Adoption of draft report
    • Committee report adopted
    • Vote to enter trilogue
  11. 26 Jun 2026
    • Tabling report by committee
  12. 29 Jun 2026
    • Tabling of a document for EP plenary
    • Tabled for plenary
  1. 8 Jul 2026
    • Endorsement by EP plenary of the committee decision to start interinstitutional negotiations · Parliament, plenary
    • Plenary endorsed the trilogue mandate
  2. 10 Jul 2026
    • Meeting — Inter-institutional technical meeting
  3. 13 Jul 2026
    • Meeting — Inter-institutional technical meeting · provisional
  4. 14 Jul 2026
    • Meeting — Inter-institutional technical meeting · provisional
  5. 15 Jul 2026
    • Interinstitutional negotiation to reach an agreement (trilogue) · Parliament, Council and Commission
    • Interinstitutional negotiations
    • Meeting — Trilogue (1st reading) · provisional
  6. 16 Jul 2026
    • Meeting — Inter-institutional technical meeting · provisional
  7. 22 Jul 2026
    • Endorsement of the provisional agreement by Coreper · Council
  8. 2 Sept 2026
    • Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible · Parliament committee
    • Committee approved the provisional agreement
13 people

Who is on it

The Parliament's rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and opinion rapporteurs currently on this file.

RoleNameGroupCountryCommittee
Co-rapporteurIvars IjabsRenewLVITRE
Co-rapporteurTonino PiculaS&DHRSEDE
Shadow rapporteurElena DonazzanECRIT
Shadow rapporteurEngin ErogluRenewDE
Shadow rapporteurEszter LakosEPPHU
Shadow rapporteurGiorgio GoriS&DIT
Shadow rapporteurJan FarskýEPPCZ
Shadow rapporteurJulie RechagneuxPfEFR
Shadow rapporteurMarc BotengaThe LeftBE
Shadow rapporteurMichał DworczykECRPL
Shadow rapporteurPierre-Romain ThionnetPfEFR
Shadow rapporteurReinier van LanschotGreens/EFANL
Shadow rapporteurSergey LagodinskyGreens/EFADE
309 amendments

Amendments

Tabled on 13 May 2026. The texts are in the amendment documents below.

By committee

  • CJ55309

By author

  • Michał Dworczyk45
  • Elena Donazzan33
  • Reinier van Lanschot32
  • Sergey Lagodinsky32
  • Angelika Niebler29
  • Aleksandar Nikolic23
  • Julie Rechagneux23
  • Pierre-Romain Thionnet23
  • Christophe Bay22
  • Ivars Ijabs22
Show 20 more authors
  • Tonino Picula22
  • Marc Botenga20
  • Özlem Demirel20
  • Judita Laššáková19
  • Alexandr Vondra17
  • Anthony Smith17
  • Marina Mesure17
  • Ondřej Krutílek17
  • Eszter Lakos14
  • Aura Salla13
  • Jan Farský13
  • Marion Walsmann13
  • Nicolás Pascual de la Parte13
  • Wouter Beke13
  • Alice Teodorescu Måwe12
  • Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă11
  • Giorgio Gori11
  • Jussi Saramo11
  • Merja Kyllönen11
  • Reinis Pozņaks11

Amendments each member tabled or co-signed.

By article

  • Article 3 – paragraph 111
  • Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 48
  • Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a8
  • Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b7
  • Recital 127
  • Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point d6
  • Recital 116
  • Recital 156
  • Recital 86
  • Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b5
Show 20 more provisions
  • Recital 105
  • Recital 165
  • Recital 205
  • Recital 95
  • Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point c4
  • Article 10 – paragraph 34
  • Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c4
  • Article 16 – paragraph 44
  • Article 17 – paragraph 34
  • Article 9 – paragraph 34
  • Recital 194
  • Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a3
  • Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)3
  • Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)3
  • Article 11 – paragraph 2 a (new)3
  • Article 12 – paragraph 4 a (new)3
  • Article 13 – paragraph 4 a (new)3
  • Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)3
  • Article 16 – paragraph 4 a (new)3
  • Article 17 – paragraph 23

Covers 145 of the 309 amendments.

4 documents

Documents

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Summary

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The AGILE programme accelerates development and deployment of disruptive defence technologies through collaborative innovation funding. It targets the European defence industry, research organizations, and SMEs working on dual-use technologies. The proposal is currently in trilogue negotiations.

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