On the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Union support for internal security for the period 2028 to 2034

for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Union support for internal security for the period 2028 to 2034

(COM(2025)0542 – C100178/2025 – 2025/0542(COD))

The Committee on Budgets has carried out a budgetary assessment of the proposal under Rule 58 of the Rules of Procedure and has reached the following conclusions:

The Committee on Budgets,

A.whereas the proposal aims at ensuring a high level of security in the Union, in particular by preventing and combating serious and organised crime, intensifying operational law enforcement cooperation and facilitating the exchange of information among relevant actors; whereas the proposal introduces a new objective of enhancing the resilience of critical entities against hostile acts and managing security-related incidents, risks and crises;

B.whereas, in line with the proposed NRP Regulation, the financial envelope for the three Home Affairs Regulations constitutes a ring-fenced minimum; whereas Member States may reallocate part of the indicative amounts set out in each of the three Regulations to implement their objectives, provided that all objectives are addressed in a proportionate manner;

C.whereas, the proposed NRP Regulation provides for only two budget lines merging the three Home Affairs Regulations, one for operational expenditure under the NRPPs and one under the EU Facility, compared with the 2021-2027 programming period where internal security had multiple budget lines;

1.Considers that the programme envelope should be increased from EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices (EUR 6.1 billion in constant prices) to [number from the Interim report, in current and 2025 prices] in order to fulfil its objectives;

2.Insists on the need to ensure stable, predictable and dedicated funding to the programme in order to allow it to pursue its objectives and deliver on citizens expectations; underlines that any flexibility between Home Affairs objectives should in no way result in a lack of ex ante predictability regarding the effective level of funding allocated to internal security;

3.Believes that all substantive policy choices such as programme objectives, spending priorities, financial allocations, funding rates, eligibility, selection and award criteria, conditions, definitions and calculation methods must be determined in the relevant basic act legislation, with full respect for Parliament’s prerogatives as co-legislator and budgetary authority, and that any supplementing and non-essential elements entailing policy choices that are not included in the basic act be adopted exclusively through delegated acts; further insists, in the context of the approval of NRPP, that Parliament and Council are placed on equal footing in the entire procedure;

4.Raises concerns regarding the absence of clear criteria as to what the Commission would consider an adequate or sufficient level or resources to be allocated to migration, border management and internal security in order to meet all objectives in the area of Home Affairs, as highlighted by the European Court of Auditors in its Opinion 09/2026;

5.Deplores the lack of a sufficiently detailed indicative budgetary nomenclature for internal security proposed in the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement (LFDS) accompanying the NRP Regulation; considers that this can hamper oversight and the budgetary authority’s ability to steer accurately policy priorities in the annual budgetary procedure; recommends fixing indicative sub-envelopes in the basic act;

6.Calls for at least two dedicated budget lines for the Union support for internal security in the LFDS accompanying the NRP Regulation, one for operational expenditure under the NRPPs and one under the EU Facility; considers them essential to ensure proper oversight at all stages of the budgetary cycle and to minimise risks of overlaps;

7.Recalls that additional funding allocated to the Union support for internal security through the EU Facility will be established in the framework of the annual budgetary procedure with full respect of the prerogatives of the budgetary authority;

8.Calls on the lead committee to coordinate its amendments so that they are entirely consistent with those adopted to the NRP Regulation.

As part of its budgetary assessment, the Committee on Budgets also submits the following amendments to the proposal:

Amendment 1

Proposal for a regulation

Recital 20 a (new)

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Amendment 2

Proposal for a regulation

Recital 20 b (new)

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Amendment 3

Proposal for a regulation

Article 4 – paragraph 1

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