Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)

Procedure 2026/0078(COD) (ordinary legislative procedure) concerns “Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE)”; the committee responsible is ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy). Completed: Signed on 21 Oct 2026, publication in the Official Journal pending. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 6 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 536 votes in favour, 101 against and 16 abstentions.

Reference

2026/0078(COD)

Type

Ordinary legislative procedure

Official title

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

Status

Completed, 1st reading

Lead

ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
SEDE Security and Defence

Budgetary assessment

BUDG Budgets

Rapporteurs

Tonino Picula (S&D, Croatia), Ivars Ijabs (Renew, Latvia)

Shadow rapporteurs

Marc Botenga (The Left, Belgium), Reinier Van Lanschot (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, Germany), Giorgio Gori (S&D, Italy), Engin Eroglu (Renew, Germany), Eszter Lakos (EPP, Hungary), Jan Farský (EPP, Czechia), Elena Donazzan (ECR, Italy), Michał Dworczyk (ECR, Poland), Julie Rechagneux (PfE, France), Pierre-Romain Thionnet (PfE, France)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) (A10-0188/2026), 6 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0188/2026 – Tonino Picula, Ivars Ijabs – Provisional agreement – Am 2, adopted, 536 for, 101 against, 16 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Votes in the Council of the EU

• 12 Oct 2026: Council (Foreign Affairs), Adoption of the legislative act: adopted; Member states: 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions. All 27 member states in favour. Result at the Council of the EU

Timeline

1. 23 Apr 2026: Appointment of a rapporteur

1st reading

1. 27 Apr 2026: Proposal referred to plenary
2. 25 Jun 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
3. 29 Jun 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
4. 8 Jul 2026: Endorsement of the EP committee responsible decision to start interinstitutional negotiations by the EP plenary
5. 15 Jul 2026: Interinstitutional negotiation
6. 2 Sep 2026: Approval of the provisional agreement with the Council by the EP committee responsible
7. 6 Oct 2026: EP position at 1st reading
8. 21 Oct 2026: Signature

• All procedures

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)