Dossier · Discharge procedure
Discharge 2025: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council
- Reference
- 2026/2081(DEC) Discharge procedure
- Where it stands
- Referred to CONT (Budgetary Control) on 15 September 2026; no report yet.
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control CONT
More facts (3)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- 3 members
- Decisions in plenary
- None yet
- Opinions from
- FEMM, SEDE, CULT, REGI, ECON, AFET, ENVI, TRAN, EMPL, SANT, BUDG, DEVE, AGRI, INTA, IMCO, JURI, LIBE, AFCO, ITRE, PECH
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 15 September 2026
- Committee work (to come)
- Tabled for plenary (to come)
- Plenary vote (to come)
- Parliament’s position (to come)
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
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY (Renew), Rasmus NORDQVIST (Greens), Pasquale TRIDICO (The Left)
- Opinion: FEMM
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- Opinion: SEDE
- Security and Defence
- Opinion: CULT
- Culture and Education
- Opinion: REGI
- Regional Development
- Opinion: ECON
- Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Opinion: AFET
- Foreign Affairs
- Opinion: ENVI
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Opinion: TRAN
- Transport and Tourism
- Opinion: EMPL
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Opinion: SANT
- Public Health
- Opinion: BUDG
- Budgets
- Opinion: DEVE
- Development
- Opinion: AGRI
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Opinion: INTA
- International Trade
- Opinion: IMCO
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Opinion: JURI
- Legal Affairs
- Opinion: LIBE
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Opinion: AFCO
- Constitutional Affairs
- Opinion: ITRE
- Industry, Research and Energy
- Opinion: PECH
- Fisheries
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, 0
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
No version of the text is linked to this dossier in the open data yet.
What changed
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No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier — fewer than two versions of its text are linked in the open data.
Timeline, 1
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Committee stage 1 step · 15 Sept 2026
15 September 2026
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality), SEDE (Security and Defence), CULT (Culture and Education), REGI (Regional Development), ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs), AFET (Foreign Affairs), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), SANT (Public Health), BUDG (Budgets), DEVE (Development), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), INTA (International Trade), IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), JURI (Legal Affairs), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), AFCO (Constitutional Affairs), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), PECH (Fisheries) give an opinion.
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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). “Discharge 2025: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council”. Dossier. reference 2026/2081(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-2081 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2026/2081(DEC), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026%2F2081(DEC). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2026-2081,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Discharge 2025: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-2081}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-2081},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2026/2081(DEC). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026\%2F2081(DEC). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}