Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Joint Undertakings

1. ✓ Referred to committee (done) 9 September 2025
2. ✓ Committee work (done) Report adopted 2 March 2026
3. ✓ Tabled for plenary (done) 23 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

Csaba MOLNÁR (S&D)

Shadow rapporteurs

Kinga KOLLÁR (EPP), Tamás DEUTSCH (Patriots), Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR), Michal WIEZIK (Renew), Terry REINTKE (Greens), Younous OMARJEE (The Left)

Opinion: TRAN

Transport and Tourism · rapporteur Gheorghe FALCĂ (EPP)

Opinion: ITRE

Industry, Research and Energy

Opinion: SANT

Public Health

Opinion: REGI

Regional Development

Opinion: ENVI

Environment, Climate and Food Safety

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 on the motion for a resolution

   Adopted 525–104–16

   The Left

   For ✓

   Greens

   For ✓

   S&D

   For ✓

   Renew

   For ✓

   EPP

   For ✓

   ECR

   For ✓

   Patriots

   Against ✗

   ESN

   Against ✗

1. Adopted by Parliament29 Apr 2026

   Adopted text TA10-0137/2026 TA-10-2026-0137

   Compare with tabled for plenary

2. Tabled for plenary23 Mar 2026

   Report A10-0046/2026 A-10-2026-0046

   Compare with committee draft

3. Committee draft16 Dec 2025

   Draft report (CONT) CONT-PR-778122

Committee opinions: Draft opinion (TRAN), Opinion (TRAN)

1. Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament Report A10-0046/2026 → Adopted text TA10-0137/2026

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

   The versions differ only in formal points: headings updated with dates and reference numbers, and spelling, punctuation, and spacing corrected.

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2. Committee draft → Tabled for plenary Draft report (CONT) → Report A10-0046/2026

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   Postpones discharge decisions and account closures for all twelve Joint Undertakings for financial year 2024. Adds calls for cybersecurity training, climate goals, and reduced reliance on in-kind contributions. Adds detailed concerns about budget execution rates and cash surpluses for several Joint Undertakings. Adds extensive paragraphs on ITER risks, governance, and Russia sanctions. Other changes are formal or wording: punctuation, terminology, and removal of 'the European' before 'Parliament'.

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Permalink

https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2157

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 - Joint Undertakings”. Dossier, 29 April 2026. procId 2025-2157, reference 2025/2157(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2025-2157 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Procedure file (Legislative Observatory, OEIL), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025%2F2157(DEC). Data: EP Open Data API: procedure record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/procedures/2025-2157 (CC BY 4.0).

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