Decision

Discharge 2022: EU general budget – European Council and Council

Effect: Discharge decision adopted
Result: 435 for · 92 against · 77 abstained roll call
Date: 23 April 2024, 13:12–13:13
Kind: Budget decision

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Margin: by a large majority
Counts are for: the proposal for a discharge decision
Text: Report A-9-2024-0071
Dossier: 2023/2131(DEC)
Source: Committee report by Luke Ming Flanagan
Votes: 6 votes · 6 roll calls · 1 amendment
Requested by: S&D (1 roll call) · Renew (1 roll call) · ID (1 roll call, 1 split vote)
Sitting: Tuesday 23 April 2024
Final vote: 168785

Margin: by a large majority
Counts are for: the proposal for a discharge decision
Text: Report A-9-2024-0071
Dossier: 2023/2131(DEC)
Source: Committee report by Luke Ming Flanagan
Votes: 6 votes · 6 roll calls · 1 amendment
Requested by: S&D (1 roll call) · Renew (1 roll call) · ID (1 roll call, 1 split vote)
Sitting: Tuesday 23 April 2024
Final vote: 168785

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Votes on this decision

Members on the final vote

Result

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Discharge decision adopted by a large majority.

Parliament voted on its discharge decision for this budget; whether discharge was granted, refused or postponed is set out in the report.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 1 amendment (1 adopted) and 3 parts of the text voted on separately (3 adopted).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew and EPP; opposed by Patriots and ESN; ECR mostly abstained.

Groups

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Members’ votes by their current group. Majority: the most common position. Clear line: a position with at least two thirds of the group’s votes, otherwise Divided.
Group	For	Against	Abst.	Majority line	Clear line
The Left	For 5	Against 4	Abst. 1	Majority line For	Clear line Divided
Greens	For 28	Against 1	Abst. 0	Majority line For	Clear line For
S&D	For 58	Against 0	Abst. 1	Majority line For	Clear line For
Renew	For 38	Against 0	Abst. 0	Majority line For	Clear line For
EPP	For 78	Against 0	Abst. 3	Majority line For	Clear line For
ECR	For 0	Against 4	Abst. 20	Majority line Abstained	Clear line Abstained
Patriots	For 0	Against 22	Abst. 3	Majority line Against	Clear line Against
ESN	For 0	Against 4	Abst. 0	Majority line Against	Clear line Against
No group	For 0	Against 4	Abst. 1	Majority line Against	Clear line Against

Voted against their group, 0

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast) of their group — groups as of today: the view with groups at the date of the vote is not available right now.

Nobody voted against a clear line of their group.

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

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Members

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All votes on this decision, 6

In voting order. **Result**: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). **Requested by**: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
1	Final vote A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – Proposal for a decision	Roll call	539 for, 26 against, 29 abstained Adopted
2	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 16 A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – After § 16 – Am 1	Roll call	485 for, 83 against, 29 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: Renew
3	Paragraph 24 — part 1 A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – § 24/1 Part voted on: ‘Notes that the use of the unanimity voting procedure in the Council on certain policy areas can negatively affect the Union’s decision-making process and therefore making it prone to blackmailing by Member States, especially those who fail to respect the rule of law;’	Roll call	446 for, 143 against, 16 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ID; split: ID

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Votes on this decision, continued
No.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
2	Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 16 A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – After § 16 – Am 1	Roll call	485 for, 83 against, 29 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: Renew
3	Paragraph 24 — part 1 A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – § 24/1 Part voted on: ‘Notes that the use of the unanimity voting procedure in the Council on certain policy areas can negatively affect the Union’s decision-making process and therefore making it prone to blackmailing by Member States, especially those who fail to respect the rule of law;’	Roll call	446 for, 143 against, 16 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ID; split: ID

Votes on this decision, continued
No.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
4	Paragraph 24 — part 2 A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – § 24/2 Part voted on: “calls on the Council to apply the qualified majority voting procedures whenever provided by the Treaties;”	Roll call	420 for, 155 against, 20 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ID; split: ID
5	Paragraph 24 — part 3 A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – § 24/3 Part voted on: “notes that a shift to a qualified majority voting procedure in the Council may be one avenue towards more efficient policy-making;”	Roll call	392 for, 172 against, 28 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ID; split: ID
6	Final vote — text as a whole A9-0071/2024 – Luke Ming Flanagan – Motion for a resolution	Roll call	435 for, 92 against, 77 abstained Adopted

Roll calls requested by S&D, Renew, ID · split votes by ID.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-9-2024-0071

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Parliament postpones its decision on granting discharge to the Secretary-General of the Council for the 2022 budget, citing the Council's continued refusal to cooperate in the discharge procedure.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2023/2131(DEC) · Discharge procedure

2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 October 2024 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier

Referred to committee · 12 September 2023 (done)
Committee work · Report adopted 30 September 2024 (done)
Tabled for plenary · 3 October 2024 (done)
Plenary vote · Adopted 22 October 2024 (done)
Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: CONT · Rapporteurs: Jonas SJÖSTEDT (The Left), Luke Ming FLANAGAN (The Left)

Other decisions on this dossier

22 Oct 2024 2022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council Passed

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-04-23/25
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 23 April 2024 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 23 April 2024 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-04-23
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2024). “Discharge 2022: EU general budget – European Council and Council”. Decision, 23 April 2024. votingId 168785, document A-9-2024-0071, reference 2023/2131(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-04-23/25 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 23 April 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-04-23-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 23 April 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-04-23-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-04-23, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2024-04-23/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2024-04-23-25,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Discharge 2022: EU general budget – European Council and Council}},
  year = {2024},
  date = {2024-04-23},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-04-23/25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-04-23/25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 168785, document A-9-2024-0071, reference 2023/2131(DEC). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-04-23-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-04-23-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-04-23 (CC BY 4.0)}
}