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Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council

Effect
Discharge decision adopted
Result
show of hands — no count
Date
29 April 2026, 13:45–13:47
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (9)
Counts are for
the proposal for a discharge decision
Text
Report A-10-2026-0051
Dossier
2025/2147(DEC)
Source
Committee report by Pasquale Tridico
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
16 votes · 4 roll calls · 2 amendments
Requested by
EPP (2 split votes, 1 separate vote) · ECR (1 roll call) · Patriots (1 roll call, 1 separate vote)
Sitting
Wednesday 29 April 2026
Final vote
191886
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Votes on this decision

Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Show of hands — no count

Discharge decision adopted.

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 2 amendments (2 rejected) and 12 parts of the text voted on separately (8 adopted, 4 rejected).

Debate speakers and how they voted

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. Speeches: how many times they took the floor. Final vote: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
MemberGroupSpeechesSpokeFinal vote
Roberta METSOLA MaltaEPPSpeeches129 Apr 2026 (verbatim report, official site)no roll call

All votes on this decision, 16

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.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Final vote Proposal for a decision Show of hands Adopted
2Separate vote on paragraph 28 Show of hands Rejected
3Separate vote on paragraph 29 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: Patriots
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Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Separate vote on paragraph 28 Show of hands Rejected
3Separate vote on paragraph 29 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: Patriots
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
4Amendment 2 to paragraph 30 A10-0051/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – § 30 – Am 2 Roll call219 for, 417 against, 9 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Patriots
5Amendment 6 to paragraph 30 A10-0051/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – § 30 – Am 6 Roll call274 for, 365 against, 8 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: Patriots, ECR
6Separate vote on paragraph 30 A10-0051/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – § 30 Roll call329 for, 286 against, 29 abstained AdoptedRequested byroll call: Patriots; separate: EPP
7Separate vote on paragraph 39 Counted442 for, 195 against, 7 abstained AdoptedRequested byseparate: EPP
8Vote on text inserted after paragraph 51 Show of hands Rejected
9Vote on text inserted after paragraph 53 Show of hands Rejected
10Vote on text inserted after paragraph 54 Show of hands Rejected
11Paragraph 55 — part 1 of 2 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘binding and enforceable’”Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: EPP
12Paragraph 55 — part 2 of 2 Part voted on: “those words”Counted301 for, 245 against, 104 abstained AdoptedRequested bysplit: EPP
13Paragraph 58 — part 1 of 3 Part voted on: ‘Regrets the fact that the participation of the Member States’ Permanent Representatives in the mandatory transparency register, set up by the interinstitutional agreement of 20 May 2021 between Parliament, the Council and the Commission, is completely voluntary as the application of the conditionality principle is left to the discretion of each Member State’s Permanent Representation; notes that only a limited number of Member States and the Union institutions abide by the best practice of applying a mandatory broad-scope definition of lobbyist in their regulatory framework and insists that all Permanent Representations should take an active part in the mandatory transparency register before, during and after their Member State’s Council presidency;’Counted405 for, 239 against, 5 abstained AdoptedRequested bysplit: EPP
14Paragraph 58 — part 2 of 3 Part voted on: ‘recalls Parliament’s position that Member State representatives who benefit directly from Union subsidies through the businesses they own should not be allowed to participate in policy or budgetary discussions and votes related to those subsidies;’Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: EPP
15Paragraph 58 — part 3 of 3 Part voted on: “regrets that the Council does not fully use the mandatory transparency register or accept proposals to improve it; reiterates its call on the Council to refrain from engaging with unregistered lobbyists and to make sure that its senior officials, including Permanent Representatives and Heads of Delegation, publicly disclose their meetings with interest groups and lobbyists in a standardised transparency register, similar to the obligations imposed on Members of Parliament and the Commission;”Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: EPP
16Final vote — text as a whole A10-0051/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call432 for, 160 against, 65 abstained Adopted

Roll calls requested by ECR, Patriots · split votes by EPP (2) · separate votes by EPP, Patriots.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2026-0051

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The European Parliament voted on granting discharge for the 2024 EU general budget, Section II, covering the European Council and the Council.

Parliament decided to postpone its decision on granting discharge to the Secretary-General of the Council, meaning the spending was not approved at this stage.

Parliament set out its observations in a resolution and instructed its President to forward the decision to the European Council, the Council, the Commission, and the Court of Auditors.

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Parliament postpones its decision on granting discharge to the Secretary-General of the Council for the 2024 budget and sets out observations in a resolution.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/2147(DEC) · Discharge procedure

Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 September 2026 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 9 September 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 2 March 2026 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 27 March 2026 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 29 April 2026 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: CONT · Rapporteur: Pasquale TRIDICO (The Left)

Connections

What this decision touches: the procedural chain, the same text, running issues, votes that split the chamber the same way.

Show 22 connections: Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure · Running issue: Annual budget procedure · Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure

Running issue: Annual budget procedure

Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

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Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/11
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council”. Decision, 29 April 2026. votingId 191886, document A-10-2026-0051, reference 2025/2147(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/11 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Results of votes, sitting of 29 April 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-04-29, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-04-29/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
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  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-04-29},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/11}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-04-29/11},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 191886, document A-10-2026-0051, reference 2025/2147(DEC). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-04-29-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-04-29 (CC BY 4.0)}
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