Dossier · Own-initiative report
Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget
- Reference
- 2025/2121(INI) Own-initiative report
- Where it stands
- Tabled for plenary on 21 July 2026; awaiting the vote.
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control CONT
More facts (4)
- Rapporteur
- Ondřej KNOTEK
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 4 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Versions
- 2 versions
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 19 June 2025
- Committee work (done) Report adopted 14 July 2026
- Tabled for plenary (done) 21 July 2026
- Plenary vote (current step) Awaiting the vote
- Parliament’s position (to come)
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
People
Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control CONT
- Rapporteur
- Ondřej KNOTEK (Patriots)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ (EPP), Eero HEINÄLUOMA (S&D), Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR), Pasquale TRIDICO (The Left)
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, 2
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Tabled for plenary21 Jul 2026
Report A10-0213/2026 A-10-2026-0213
Committee draft8 Jun 2026
Draft report (CONT) CONT-PR-789092
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Report A10-0213/2026: Parliament's resolution on combating VAT fraud examines how well cross-border cooperation works and what VAT fraud costs the EU budget. It calls for a stronger EU anti-fraud architecture in the post-2027 multiannual financial framework, with better information exchange and funding for the EU's anti-fraud bodies.
What changed
Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.
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Timeline, 5
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Plenary stage 1 step · 21 Jul 2026
21 July 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps · 19 Jun 2025–14 Jul 2026
14 July 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
26 June 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
8 June 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
19 June 2025
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
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Sources & citation
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- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget”. Dossier. reference 2025/2121(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2121 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2025/2121(INI), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025%2F2121(INI). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2025-2121,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2121}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2121},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2025/2121(INI). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025\%2F2121(INI). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}