Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Committee of the Regions

1. ✓ Referred to committee (done) 9 September 2025
2. ✓ Committee work (done) Report adopted 2 March 2026
3. ✓ Tabled for plenary (done) 12 March 2026
4. ✓ Plenary vote (done) Adopted 29 April 2026
5. ✓ 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.

Lead committee

Budgetary Control CONT

Rapporteur

Pasquale TRIDICO (The Left)

Shadow rapporteurs

Andrey KOVATCHEV (EPP), Csaba MOLNÁR (S&D), Ondřej KNOTEK (Patriots), Şerban Dimitrie STURDZA (ECR), Michal WIEZIK (Renew)

Opinion: AGRI

Agriculture and Rural Development

Opinion: FEMM

Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Opinion: AFCO

Constitutional Affairs

Opinion: ITRE

Industry, Research and Energy

Opinion: REGI

Regional Development

Opinion: SANT

Public Health

Opinion: IMCO

Internal Market and Consumer Protection

Opinion: BUDG

Budgets

Opinion: PECH

Fisheries

Opinion: ECON

Economic and Monetary Affairs

Opinion: INTA

International Trade

Opinion: TRAN

Transport and Tourism

Opinion: ENVI

Environment, Climate and Food Safety

Opinion: LIBE

Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Opinion: CULT

Culture and Education

Opinion: DEVE

Development

Opinion: AFET

Foreign Affairs

Opinion: JURI

Legal Affairs

Opinion: SEDE

Security and Defence

Opinion: EMPL

Employment and Social Affairs

Each group's clear line at the date of the vote: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided; “< 10 voted” when fewer took part. Result: outcome, for–against–abstained (method).

Key: ✓ For ✗ Against ○ Abstained ÷ Divided (no clear line)

1. 29 Apr 2026 Final vote — text as a whole

   Adopted 567–70–13

   The Left

   For ✓

   Greens

   For ✓

   S&D

   For ✓

   Renew

   For ✓

   EPP

   For ✓

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   Divided ÷

   ESN

   For ✓

1. Adopted by Parliament29 Apr 2026

   Adopted text TA10-0132/2026 TA-10-2026-0132

   Compare with tabled for plenary

2. Tabled for plenary12 Mar 2026

   Report A10-0056/2026 A-10-2026-0056

   Compare with committee draft

3. Committee draft15 Dec 2025

   Draft report (CONT) CONT-PR-778064

1. Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament Report A10-0056/2026 → Adopted text TA10-0132/2026

   ▸ AIAI: What changed Written by AI from the official text — check the source

   The only substantive change corrects the reported percentages of women and men employed by the Committee in 2024. The other changes are formal: updated title and date, and standardised references and punctuation.

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2. Committee draft → Tabled for plenary Draft report (CONT) → Report A10-0056/2026

   ▸ AIAI: What changed Written by AI from the official text — check the source

   The main change is that discharge is postponed instead of granted for 2024. Several new paragraphs call for stronger performance measurement, cost savings, and involvement in EU budget monitoring. New calls address gender balance, anti-fraud, AI ethics, and communication strategy. Other changes are formal or wording: updated references, punctuation, and rephrasing without altering substance.

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Permalink

https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2152

Official source

• Procedure file (Legislative Observatory, OEIL) ↗

Data source

• EP Open Data API: procedure record ↗

Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Retrieved

25 September 2026

European Parliament (2026). “Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Committee of the Regions”. Dossier, 29 April 2026. procId 2025-2152, reference 2025/2152(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2152 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Procedure file (Legislative Observatory, OEIL), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025%2F2152(DEC). Data: EP Open Data API: procedure record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/procedures/2025-2152 (CC BY 4.0).

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