EU-Iceland Agreement on the participation of Iceland in GOVSATCOM and in the Union Secure Connectivity Programme

Procedure 2025/0351(NLE) (non-legislative enactments) concerns “EU-Iceland Agreement on the participation of Iceland in GOVSATCOM and in the Union Secure Connectivity Programme”; the committee responsible is ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 22 Oct 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 16 Sep 2026 (final vote): adopted with 631 votes in favour, 7 against and 15 abstentions.

Reference

2025/0351(NLE)

Type

Non-legislative enactments

Official title

Laying down the rules for participation of Iceland in the GOVSATCOM component of the Union Space Programme and in the Union Secure Connectivity Programme

Status

Completed

Lead

ITRE Industry, Research and Energy

Budgetary assessment

BUDG Budgets

Rapporteur

Paolo Borchia (PfE, Italy)

Shadow rapporteurs

Bruno Gonçalves (S&D, Portugal), Angelika Winzig (EPP, Austria), Elena Donazzan (ECR, Italy)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• EU-Iceland Agreement on the participation of Iceland in GOVSATCOM and in the Union Secure Connectivity Programme (A10-0207/2026), 16 Sep 2026: final vote, adopted, 631 for, 7 against, 15 abstentions

Timeline

1. 18 May 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 20 May 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur
3. 23 Jun 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 14 Jul 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 16 Jul 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 16 Sep 2026: EP decision
7. 22 Oct 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

• All procedures

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)