(AGENPARL) – lun 17 febbraio 2025 Newsletter
ISSUE 3 – 2025
WEDNESDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2025
09.00 – 12.30 AND 14.30 – 17.00
SPINELLI 3E2, BRUSSELS
THURSDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2025
09.00 – 11.15
SPINELLI 3E2, BRUSSELS
BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
*** Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 09.00 – 11.45 ***
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2025 Budget: Section III – Commission
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Shadows:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzońca (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):
Rapporteur:
Niclas Herbst (EPP)
Shadows:
C1/2025
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
The purpose of this transfer proposal of a total amount of
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
EUR 351 000 to line 2101 “Business applications management” is
Bogdan Rzońca (ECR)
to ensure the continued use of the CLAVIS IT system by DG
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
PRES for managing Parliament’s historical archives, as well as to
Kai Tegethoff (Greens/EFA)
facilitate the selection and acquisition of a new ‘track- andJoão Oliveira (The Left)
trace’ IT system for administering Parliament’s official mail. DG
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
PRES and DG ITEC collaborate in the investment of these IT
systems, with DG PRES as user, and DG ITEC managing the
licences and maintenance.
The transfer is made possible as a result of savings of
EUR 351 000 obtained from budget line 3210 “Expenditure on European parliament research
services, including the library, the historical archives, scientific and technological options (STOA) and
the European Science-Media”.
– No other transfer request
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
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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 ***
Implementing Protocol (2025-2030) to the Protocol
implementing the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
Agreement between the European Union on the one hand,
and the Government of Greenland and the Government of
Denmark, on the other hand
Members of the Committee on Budgets will vote on the draft budgetary
assessment of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement with
Greenland and Denmark.
The financial contribution from the EU budget for the entire duration of
a) an annual amount for access to fishery resources for the categories
b) support for the development of Greenland’s sectoral fisheries policy
The rapporteur, Ms Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, concludes that the
Protocol is compatible with the budgetary framework and that the
responsible committee, PECH, shall be advised to approve the Sustainable
Fisheries Partnership Agreement with Greenland and Denmark.
Rapporteur:
Isabel Benjumea Benjumea
(EPP)
Shadows:
Jean-Marc Germain (S&D)
(PfE)
(ECR)
Stine Bosse (Renew)
(Greens/ EFA)
(The Left)
(ESN)
Presentation of draft
budgetary assessment:
16 January 2025
Deadline for tabling
amendments:
22 January 2025 at 12.00
Adoption in BUDG:
19 February 2025
Adoption in PECH:
19 May 2025
Plenary: July 2025
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
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2025 Budget: Section III – Commission – exchange of views
– No transfer request
Rapporteur:
Victor Negrescu (S&D)
Shadows:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzońca (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):
C1/2025
Members will vote on the transfer proposal in accordance with
Article 29 of the Financial Regulation.
– No other transfer request
Rapporteur:
Niclas Herbst (EPP)
Shadows:
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)
Bogdan Rzońca (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Kai Tegethoff (Greens/EFA)
João Oliveira (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
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Building Policy
– No building request
*** END OF VOTE ***
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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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
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Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year
2026 – Section I – European Parliament – Exchange of views
in the presence of Vice-Presidents of the European
Parliament responsible for the budget and the SecretaryGeneral
The Secretary-General presented to the Bureau the proposal on the
Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year
2026 on 10 February 2025.
In the presence of the Vice-Presidents of the Parliament responsible for
the budget, Ms Verheyen and Mr López, and of the Secretary-General
of the Parliament, Mr Chiocchetti, the committee will hold its first
exchange of views on the proposal.
Rapporteur:
Matjaž Nemec (S&D)
Shadows:
Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP)
(PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Ignazio 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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Update of the financial programming 2026 – 2027 Presentation by the Commission
Every year, in accordance with Article 41(2) of the Financial Regulation and
the Interinstitutional Agreement accompanying the Multiannual Financial
Framework (MFF), the Commission updates the financial programming for
the remainder of the MFF.
The financial programming update includes the changes resulting from the
2025 budget adopted at the end of last year, the impact of recently adopted
or proposed legislation and the effect of specific transfers. The financial
programming forms the basis of the Draft Budget and makes clear what
resources are available to respond to emerging needs or for political
priorities.
Rapporteur:
Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
Shadows:
Nils Ušakovs (S&D)
Tamás Deutsch (PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Stine Bosse (Renew)
Nicolae Ştefănuță (Greens/
João Oliveira (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
The Commission will present its updated financial programming for the years
2026 and 2027 to the BUDG Members.
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Presentation of a study on “Performance and Mainstreaming framework for the EU budget”
Mr Iain Begg, professorial research fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and
Political Science, and researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies, will present the second part of a
study on a “Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget”, focusing on empirical evidence,
analysis and recommendations. The first part looked at concepts and practices.
Performance-based budgeting, by focusing on ‘what works’, as opposed to whether money has been
properly spent, aims at improving the quality of public spending. This study examines how successful the
approach has been in the EU, involving both the MFF and the RRF. The study looks, in particular, at the role
of the European Parliament and how it could be enhanced.
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
*** Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 14.30 – 17.00 ***
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A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing
world
The MFF co-rapporteurs, Siegfried Mureşan (EPP) and Carla Tavares
(S&D), will present their draft own-initiative report on the post-2027
multiannual financial framework (MFF). This report is intended to set out
Parliament’s vision of how that post-2027 framework should be
designed and resourced.
The draft report underlines the following key points:
the post-2027 long-term budget must be designed and resourced
so as to enable the Union to deliver on its policy objectives, tackle
the growing challenges it faces, manage and repay its debt
sustainably, respond to shocks and crises and adjust to evolving
spending needs;
all spending in the post-2027 MFF must be strategically aligned with
the EU’s political aims, adding tangible value for the people of the
Union, with discernible net benefits compared to spending at
national or sub-national level and leading to real and lasting results;
the post-2027 MFF must also become simpler, more transparent
and be protected against misuse, fraud and breaches of the
principles of the rule of law and the Union’s values;
a simpler, more flexible MFF requires more robust parliamentary
accountability.
Co-rapporteurs:
Siegfried Mureşan (EPP)
Carla Tavares (S&D)
Shadows:
Tamás Deutsch (PfE)
Roberts Zile (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Rasmus Nordqvist (Greens/
João Oliveira (The Left)
Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
Presentation of report:
19 February 2025
Deadline for tabling
amendments:
20 February 2025 at 17.00
Adoption in BUDG:
23/24 April 2025
Plenary: May I 2025
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Exchange of views with Ms Stéphanie Riso, European Commission’s Director-General for
Budget, on the state of play of the Headroom of the EU Budget
The headroom is the difference between the own resources ceiling (i.e. the maximum amount of resources
that the Commission can ask Member States to contribute in a given year) and the funds that the Commission
actually needs to cover the expenses foreseen by the budget.
Contingent liabilities backed by this headroom have multiplied in the last five years with the introduction of
the loans under the European instrument for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an
emergency (SURE), the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) or the provision of recent loans to Ukraine in
the context of Russia’s war of aggression (MFA+ and Ukraine Facility). It is thus of crucial importance to make
sure that the existing headroom is sufficient to cater for the materialisation of losses that may arise in case
of default.
Ms Stéphanie Riso, the European Commission’s Director-General for Budget, will take the opportunity of the
recent publication of the report from the Commission on contingent liabilities and the sustainability of those
contingent liabilities to provide a state of play of the headroom-backed liabilities and an assessment of the
sustainability of the headroom.
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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
*** THURSDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2025, 09.00 – 11.15 ***
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Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year
2026 – Section I – European Parliament – Exchange of views
with DGs FINS, INLO, ITEC and COMM
Rapporteur:
Matjaž Nemec (S&D)
After the first exchange of views on 19 February 2025 with the VicePresidents of the Parliament responsible for the budget, Ms Verheyen
and Mr López, and the Secretary-General of the Parliament, Mr
Chiocchetti, Members will hear from the Directors-General of DG FINS,
DG INLO, DG ITEC and DG COMM about their priorities in the proposal
on the Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2026,
followed by an exchange of views.
Shadows:
Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP)
(PfE)
Ruggero Razza (ECR)
Fabienne Keller (Renew)
Ignazio 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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BUDG NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3 – 2025
NEXT MEETINGS
3 March 2025 – BUDG meeting
6 March 2025 – BUDG meeting
31 March 2025 – Extraordinary BUDG meeting (Strasbourg)
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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”
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Briefing “EU assistance to Ukraine and scrutiny of the EU financing provided”
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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Contacts
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