Dossier · Discharge procedure
2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Ombudsman
- Reference
- 2023/2137(DEC) Discharge procedure
- Where it stands
- Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 October 2024 and now EU law.
- Stage
- Parliament’s position
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control CONT
More facts (5)
- Rapporteur
- Luke Ming FLANAGAN
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 6 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 3 versions
- Opinions from
- INTA, ITRE, REGI, FEMM, JURI, AFCO, TRAN, CULT, LIBE, AFET, BUDG, DEVE, PECH, EMPL, AGRI, IMCO, ENVI, ECON
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 12 September 2023
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 22 February 2024
- Tabled for plenary (done) 11 March 2024
- Plenary vote (done) Adopted 11 April 2024
- Parliament’s position (done) Final
Parliament checks how an EU institution or agency spent a past year’s budget and signs it off — or refuses to.
People
Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control CONT
- Rapporteur
- Luke Ming FLANAGAN (The Left)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- MEP #197482 (ID) former member, MEP #33982 (EPP) former member, MEP #197584 (S&D) former member, MEP #28372 (ECR) former member, MEP #204416 (Renew) former member, MEP #197539 (Greens) former member
- Opinion: INTA
- International Trade
- Opinion: ITRE
- Industry, Research and Energy
- Opinion: REGI
- Regional Development
- Opinion: FEMM
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- Opinion: JURI
- Legal Affairs
- Opinion: AFCO
- Constitutional Affairs
- Opinion: TRAN
- Transport and Tourism
- Opinion: CULT
- Culture and Education
- Opinion: LIBE
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Opinion: AFET
- Foreign Affairs
- Opinion: BUDG
- Budgets
- Opinion: DEVE
- Development
- Opinion: PECH
- Fisheries
- Opinion: EMPL
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Opinion: AGRI
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Opinion: IMCO
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Opinion: ENVI
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Opinion: ECON
- Economic and Monetary Affairs
Decisions in plenary, 0
Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.
No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.
Every roll-call vote on the dossier, in date and voting order, with each group's line at the date of the vote.
No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.
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Versions, 3
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Adopted by Parliament11 Apr 2024
Adopted text TA9-0234/2024 TA-9-2024-0234
Tabled for plenary11 Mar 2024
Report A9-0084/2024 A-9-2024-0084
Committee draft13 Dec 2023
Draft report (CONT) CONT-PR-753486
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Adopted text TA9-0234/2024: Parliament grants the European Ombudsman discharge for the implementation of its 2022 budget and sets out its observations in an accompanying resolution.
- Report A9-0084/2024: Parliament grants the European Ombudsman discharge for the 2022 budget and sets out observations in a resolution.
What changed
Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.
No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier. The “Compare” links under Versions show every change between two versions.
Timeline, 7
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Outcome 1 step · 10 Oct 2024
10 October 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 3 steps · 11 Mar 2024–11 Apr 2024
11 April 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 11 Apr 2024 Adopted text TA9-0234/2024Report A9-0084/2024
10 April 2024
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
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11 March 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps · 12 Sept 2023–22 Feb 2024
22 February 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
13 December 2023
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
12 September 2023
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; INTA (International Trade), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), REGI (Regional Development), FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality), JURI (Legal Affairs), AFCO (Constitutional Affairs), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), CULT (Culture and Education), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), AFET (Foreign Affairs), BUDG (Budgets), DEVE (Development), PECH (Fisheries), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs) give an opinion.
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- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
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European Parliament (2026). “2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Ombudsman”. Dossier. reference 2023/2137(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-2137 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2023/2137(DEC), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023%2F2137(DEC). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2023-2137,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Ombudsman}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-2137}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2023-2137},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2023/2137(DEC). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2023\%2F2137(DEC). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}