Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan
2025/0103(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure
Procedure 2025/0103(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan”; the committee responsible is ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 22 Dec 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 16 Dec 2025 (final vote): adopted with 519 votes in favour, 119 against and 25 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/0103(COD)
- Type
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- Official title
- Amending Regulations (EU) 2021/694, (EU) 2021/695, (EU) 2021/697, (EU) 2021/1153, (EU) 2023/1525 and 2024/795, as regards incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan
- Status
- Completed, 1st reading
- Lead
- ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
- Opinion
- SEDE Security and Defence (opinion: Thijs Reuten (S&D, Netherlands))
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Marjan Šarec (Renew, Slovenia)) - Budgetary assessment
- BUDG Budgets (opinion: Christian Ehler (EPP, Germany))
- Parliamentary committee for opinion on legal basis
- JURI Legal Affairs (opinion: Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, Germany))
- Rapporteur
- Rihards Kols (ECR, Latvia)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Jussi Saramo (The Left, Finland), Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, Germany), Bruno Gonçalves (S&D, Portugal), Morten Løkkegaard (Renew, Denmark), Wouter Beke (EPP, Belgium), Pierre-Romain Thionnet (PfE, France), Marcin Sypniewski (ESN, Poland)
- Opinions
- 18 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan (A10-0172/2025), 16 Dec 2025: final vote, adopted, 519 for, 119 against, 25 abstentions
Votes in the Council of the EU
- 18 Dec 2025: Council of the EU, Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 26 for, 1 against, 0 abstentions. Against: Hungary. Result at the Council of the EU
Timeline
- 15 May 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
1st reading
- 21 May 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 6 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 13 Jun 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 16 Jun 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 18 Jun 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 16 Jul 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 23 Sep 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 30 Sep 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 8 Oct 2025: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
- 5 Nov 2025: Interinstitutional negotiation
- 20 Nov 2025: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
- 3 Dec 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 15 Dec 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
- 16 Dec 2025: EP position at 1st reading
- 19 Dec 2025: Signature
- 22 Dec 2025: Publication in the Official Journal
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Votes in the Council: Council of the European Union, voting results (consilium.europa.eu), reused with acknowledgement of the source under Decision (EU) 2017/1842; population figures from the Council’s Rules of Procedure (Annex III, Official Journal of the EU). Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.