Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024

Tabled by Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet, Jorge Martín Frías, Hermann Tertsch

Added: 124a. Underlines that, unlike those of the United States and China, the European space industry is not shielded from international competition and does not benefit from a European preference; calls on EU member states and the Commission to implement a European preference in space industry procurement; stresses that the European Space Agency’s principle of geographical return hampers innovative European SMEs and start-ups from receiving adequate funding and contributes to the fragmentation of the European space industry; calls on the European Space Agency to abolish the principle of geographical return and adopt an innovation- and efficiency-based approach to space procurement rather than a geographically driven one;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE769.721v01-00