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EU Space Act Faces Key Parliament Committee Vote On 10 November

Armando Broja
Policy Correspondent, Space Policy

Toulouse: The EU Space Act now faces its decisive test in the European Parliament, where the Industry, Research and Energy Committee has moved its vote to 10 November 2026. The Commission tabled the proposal on 25 June 2025 to replace 13 fragmented national approaches with one set of rules for space activities. Rapporteur Elena Donazzan, an Italian member of the ECR group, leads the file.

The EU Space Act rests on three pillars. Safety rules cover the tracking of space objects and the reduction of debris, resilience rules set tailored cybersecurity and business continuity duties, and sustainability rules ask operators to assess and cut their environmental impact. The Commission says requirements scale with company size and risk, and it promises lighter burdens for start-ups, small firms and small mid-caps.

Parliament has taken a long road to this vote. The committee published its draft report on 3 March 2026, the Environment Committee gave its opinion on 19 March and the Internal Market Committee followed on 21 April. Angelika Niebler of the EPP and Giorgio Gori of the S&D group are among the lawmakers steering the amendments. The delay gives them time to align positions, according to The European Post.

Critics focus on two points. Some object to a national security clause that they say gives governments broad discretion, and smaller operators worry that the compliance timeline is too tight against larger American and Chinese rivals. Those worries explain why the EU Space Act divides lawmakers even though the goal of a single market for space activities attracts wide support.

The Council has already moved. Ministers backed the objectives at the Competitiveness Council in December 2025, and the Danish Presidency in December 2025 and the Cyprus Presidency in March 2026 circulated compromise texts. According to an International Bar Association analysis, many governments want a more flexible model and a narrower EU regime for spaceports. They also want clearer lines between commercial and defence activities, less overlap with the NIS2 cybersecurity directive and a bigger national role than the Commission planned for the EU Agency for the Space Programme.

The EU Space Act cannot reach trilogue talks until the full Parliament adopts a negotiating mandate in plenary. A committee vote on 10 November would clear the first hurdle, but a plenary decision and a Council position must follow. The Commission page on the EU Space Act explains the proposal, and the public consultation that ran from 15 July to 7 November 2025 has closed.

Satellite makers, launch companies and operators from outside the Union all watch the committee result. If lawmakers keep the national security clause and narrow the scope, the final EU Space Act could look quite different from the Commission text that Brussels presented in 2025.

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