Under the draft, participation in strategic infrastructure and industrial projects, as well as public tenders for quantum products and services, would generally be limited to EU-controlled companies. Companies from partner countries could take part with the European Commission's approval where a reciprocal partnership exists, subject to safeguards on security and intellectual property. The act would require member states to align their national strategies with shared priorities.
The computing target is about 100 error-corrected logical qubits per system by 2030 or soon after, and thousands by 2035. For networks: interconnected metropolitan quantum networks by 2030 over about 50 km, and about 200 km toward 2035. Industry efforts would focus on foundries, chips, electronics, cryogenics and lasers, with a shift to industrial-scale production in 2030–2035.
On security, tenders opened six months after the act takes effect, for infrastructure and systems in critical sectors, would generally require products that are ready for post-quantum cryptography and allow encryption methods to be swapped. This is only a draft: the text has not been officially published and may change.