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# EU Council and Parliament strike provisional deal on defence procurement
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-06-10-eu-defence-omnibus-v-provisional-deal/
- Published: 2026-06-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T12:00:28.000Z
- Description: Council and Parliament negotiators reach a provisional deal quadrupling defence procurement thresholds, adding two mandatory intra-EU transfer licences and raising the SME funding bonus, still needing formal endorsement by both institutions.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Council of the European Union, press release (via GlobalSecurity.org mirror), 10 June 2026](https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2026/06/mil-260610-ec01.htm?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not itself take legal effect; the text still needs formal endorsement and legal-linguistic revision.

**How this item counts.** Towards autonomy: it changes whose law governs. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 3 of 3 (large), Reported counts half: weight +3 of 36 possible. Provisional deal mandates intra-EU transfer licences for defence procurement, EU-wide, not yet in force. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-09-23\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)