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ISSUE 4 – 2025
THURSDAY, 6 MARCH 2025
09.45 – 11.15
SPINELLI 1G3, BRUSSELS
BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 4 – 2025
*** Thursday, 6 March 2025, 09.45 – 11.15 ***
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2025 Budget: Section III – Commission
– DEC 2/2025
This transfer proposal constitutes a mobilisation of the European
Solidarity Fund. An amount of EUR 100 million is to be transferred from
the reserve line of the Special Instrument – European Solidarity Reserve
– to the operational budget line of the EU Solidarity Fund in order to
enable an advance payment to Spain in response to the devastating
floods of last autumn.
Background: following the floods caused by the torrential rains that hit
several areas of eastern Spain (DANA floods) in October 2024, Spain
applied for assistance under the “major disaster” criterion of the EUSF
Regulation and requested an advance payment.
Rapporteur:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Shadows:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Andresen
(Greens/ EFA)
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
the European Solidarity Reserve to the EUSF operational budget line is necessary (under the EUSF
Regulation, advance payments to Member States are capped at 25% of the anticipated financial contribution
– No other transfer request
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2025 Budget: Other Sections
– European Parliament (EP):
C2/2025
The purpose of this transfer is to reinforce budget item 3200
“Acquisition of expertise” by EUR 110 000 to cover Parliament’s share of
the 2025 financing of the interinstitutional body for ethical standards by
using the available appropriations of item 101 “Contingency reserve”.
– European Committee of the Regions (CoR):
Rapporteur:
Niclas Herbst (EPP)
Shadows:
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Kai Tegethoff (Greens/EFA)
João Oliveira (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
INF 1/2025
The purpose of this transfer for a total amount of EUR 852 643 is to
reinforce four budget items, namely:
– budget line 2008 “Other expenditure on buildings” with EUR 88 125 for the implementation of joint
CoR-EESC upkeep of building projects in view of discontinuing rental of the B-100 building by August 2026;
– budget line 2022 “Cleaning and maintenance” with EUR 309 518 for maintenance of the technical
installations of CoR-EESC jointly occupied buildings;
– budget line 2100 “Purchase, servicing and maintenance of equipment and software, and related work”
(IT related expenditure) with EUR 200 000 for onboarding fee for SUMMA;
– budget line 2102 “Outside assistance for the operation, development and maintenance of software
systems” (IT/communication related expenditure) with EUR 255 000 for politically essential tool of web
streaming of the CoR statutory meetings and events.
This transfer of appropriations is possible as a result of estimated savings on the budget line 1200
“Remuneration and allowances”.
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 4 – 2025
Modification of its Establishment Plan
This transfer aims to convert six permanent AST posts into six permanent AD posts, and to convert one
permanent AD post into one temporary AD post, in accordance with Article 53 of the Financial Regulation.
– No other transfer request
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Building Policy
– No building request
Rapporteur:
Olivier Chastel (Renew)
Shadows:
Monika Hohlmeier (EPP)
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Angeline Furet (PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Ignazio Marino (Greens/EFA)
(The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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*** VOTING TIME ***
2025 Budget: Section III – Commission
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Shadows:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Andresen (Greens/
Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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2025 Budget: Other Sections
– European Parliament (EP):
C2/2025
Members will vote on the transfer proposal in accordance with
Article 29 of the Financial Regulation.
– European Committee of the Regions (CoR):
INF 1/2025
Members will vote on the transfer proposal in accordance with
Article 29 of the Financial Regulation.
Modification of its Establishment Plan
Members will vote on the proposal for modification of
establishment plan in accordance with Article 53 of the
Financial Regulation.
Rapporteur:
Niclas Herbst (EPP)
Shadows:
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Kai Tegethoff (Greens/EFA)
João Oliveira (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
– No other transfer request
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Building Policy
– No building request
Rapporteur:
Olivier Chastel (Renew)
Shadows:
Monika Hohlmeier (EPP)
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Angeline Furet (PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Ignazio Marino (Greens/EFA)
(The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
*** END OF VOTE ***
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 4 – 2025
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Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year
2026 – Section I – European Parliament
After an exchange of views in the presence of the Vice-President of the
Parliament responsible for the budget, Ms Verheyen, and the SecretaryGeneral of the Parliament, Mr Chiocchetti, which took place on
19 February 2025, as well as an exchange of views with the DirectorsGeneral of four DGs (FINS, INLO, ITEC and COMM) on 20 February
2025, the Rapporteur will present his draft report on the Parliament’s
estimates of revenue and expenditure for the year 2026 to the Members
of the committee, followed by an exchange of views.
Rapporteur:
Matjaž Nemec (S&D)
Shadows:
Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP)
Julien Sanchez (PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Ignazio Roberto Marino
(Greens/EFA)
(The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
Deadline for tabling
amendments:
11 March 2025 at 12.00
Adoption in BUDG:
31 March 2025
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Enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention,
detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and
trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol’s
support to preventing and combating such crimes and
amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794
This budgetary assessment analyses the budgetary aspects of the
Proposal for a Regulation on enhancing Europol’s support to preventing
and combating the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant
smuggling and trafficking of human beings, and whether the Proposal
provides for sufficient financial and human resources. It also determines
whether the proposal is compatible with the Multiannual Financial
Framework and the corresponding interinstitutional agreement, as well
as the budgetary principles laid down in the Financial Regulation.
The estimated financial impact of the proposal amounts to
EUR 48.9 million of operational appropriations under Heading 5, and
EUR 1.1 million of administrative appropriations under Heading 7 for the
period 2025-2027. The proposal sets out a staff increase of 50 FTEs at
Europol, however being offset by the future reinforcement in FRONTEX
staff.
Rapporteur:
Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP)
Shadows:
Giuseppe Lupo (S&D)
(PfE)
Bogdan Rzo?ca (ECR)
Joachim Streit (Renew)
Nicolae ?tef?nu?? (Greens/
(The Left)
(ESN)
Presentation of draft
budgetary assessment:
6 March 2025
Deadline for tabling
amendments:
21 March 2025 at 12.00
Adoption in BUDG:
The rapporteur, Mr Helder Sousa Silva, will present his draft budgetary
23 April 2025
assessment, and Members of the Committee on Budgets will hold an
exchange of views. The recommendation of the rapporteur is that
Adoption in LIBE:
entrusting new tasks to decentralised agencies should be financed
13 May 2025
through fresh appropriations, and redeployments from other
programmes and priorities should be limited and examined with due
care. The conclusion of the rapporteur is that further clarifications are
needed on the Legislative Financial Statement accompanying the proposal, and more specifically on the
redeployment of financial and human resources from other programmes, agencies, and the parent DG.
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 4 – 2025
NEXT MEETINGS
19-20 March 2025 – BUDG meeting
31 March 2025 – Extraordinary BUDG meeting (Strasbourg)
eCommittee (for internal users)
Implementation figures
NEWS FROM THE BUDGETARY SUPPORT UNIT
Recent publications
Publications Catalogue 2019 – 2024
Study “Adapting the EU budget to make it fit for the purpose of future enlargements”
Study “Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget”
At a Glance “Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget” Other language
versions
Briefing “European Union gender budgeting – state of play 2024”
Study “Recent inflation developments and the EU budget” (Part 2)
Study “EU contingent financial liabilities”
At a Glance “EU contingent financial liabilities”
Briefing “Mainstreaming in the post-2027 MFF”
Briefing “Performance-based Programmes under the post-2027 MFF”
Briefing “European public goods and the 2028-2034 MFF”
Briefing “Revamping the EU’s budgetary flexibility”
Briefing “Management of debt liabilities in the EU budget under the post-2027 MFF”
Briefing “EU Enlargement and the post-2027 MFF”
Study “The history of the EU budget” (Update)
Other language versions
Briefing “The European Parliament and the CFSP Budget – The case of the Rapid Deployment
Capacity”
Study “Performance framework for the EU budget – Concepts and practices” (Part 1)
Study “The impacts of recent inflation developments on the EU finances” (Part 1)
Briefing “ITER financing by the EU budget – state-of-play”
Briefing “An estimate of the European Union’s long-term borrowing cost bill”
Briefing “Gender budgeting in the Member States”
At a Glance “Options for a stronger and more agile EU budget”
Study “Options for a stronger and more agile EU budget”
Briefing “Ukraine: Financing of reconstruction and the role of the EU budget”
Briefing “Budgetary aspects of EU defence policy”
In-Depth Analysis “Recovery and Resilience Dialogue with the European Commission”
Briefing “The Financial Transparency System – How to improve its functioning and reliability”
Study “Lessons learned from the implementation of crisis response tools at EU level” (Part 2)
At a Glance “Nomination for a Member of the European Court of Auditors: Bulgaria”
Study “EU anti-fraud architecture – the role of EU-level players, how they cooperate and the
challenges they face”
At a Glance “EU anti-fraud architecture – the role of EU-level players, how they cooperate and the
challenges they face”
Executive summary in other language versions
Briefing “Cohesion Policy Calendar (2021-2027 and 2014-2020 Programming Periods)” July 2024
update
Briefing “Analysis of the 100 largest recipients of RRF funds per Member State”
Briefing “EU assistance to Ukraine and scrutiny of the EU financing provided”
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Study “Lessons learned from the implementation of crisis response tools at EU level” (Part 1)
Study “The future of digitalisation of budgetary control”
At a Glance “Nomination for a Member of the European Court of Auditors: Italy”
Workshop Proceedings “Preventing EU funds from reaching sanctioned individuals or entities”
Study “Due Diligence in EU Institutions’ Own-Account Procurement: Rules and Practices”
Workshop Proceedings “Sponsorships of EU Presidencies: Stocktaking and Perspectives”
Briefing “Nominations for Members of the European Court of Auditors: Sweden and Portugal”
Briefing “EU assistance to Ukraine and scrutiny of the EU financing provided”
Briefing “Preventing EU funds from ending up with individuals or companies tied to the EU-Russia
sanctions list”
In-Depth Analysis “The EU Emissions Trading System: Method and Effects of Free Allowance
Allocation”
Forthcoming publications
Study “Mapping the current structure and discovering the potential of ‘other revenue’ ”
Study “Performance framework for the EU budget – Further steps towards the mainstreaming of
horizontal priorities and for delivering an outcome/impact oriented approach”
Study “Parliamentary budgetary control: an international overview”
Study “Accountability mechanisms of institutions not under discharge procedure: the EIB”
Study “Performance-based instruments – Better design in view of parliamentary scrutiny”
Study “Methods in the European Court of Auditors and the Commission: the estimated level of error
vs estimated risk at payment/risk at closure”
Forthcoming events
Workshop “EU anti-fraud architecture – the role of EU-level players, how they cooperate and the
challenges they face” (date tbc)
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