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Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report
BUDG-PR-759895 → A-9-2024-0174
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- BUDG-PR-759895 report parliamentary committee draft of 13 Mar 2024
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- A-9-2024-0174 Plenary report of 10 Apr 2024
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- 9 changes to the text
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- +0 added · −1 removed · 11 changed
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- Title (from)
- on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 Amendments of the 2024 budget required due to the MFF revision
- Title (to)
- on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 Amendments of the 2024 budget required due to the MFF revision
Changes that matter, 9
Changes to the text in document order — the ones the change notes describe. Cover page, renumbering and punctuation-only edits are left out (see “Every difference”); changes to citations and references stay in and are marked as formal in the notes.
Change 1
Changed3. Welcomes the proposal to mobilise EUR 4,8 billion from the newly created Ukraine Reserve to enable the payment of grants to Ukraine; recalls that the payment of loans does not require an amending budget and therefore that the Union is already providing support to the Ukrainian government so that it can maintain essential services; stresses that grant- and loan-based financial support through the Ukraine Facility will help to keep the state and essential services functioning, while supporting Ukraine on its path to reconstruction, recovery, reform and membership of the Union;
Change 2
Changed7. Notes that, on 5 March 2024, the Commission put forward a proposal to establish a new defence programme - the European Defence Industry Programme - for the period 2025-2027, with a planned transfer of EUR 1,5 billion from the EDF, precisely the amount of the EDF reinforcement agreed under STEP; reiterates its long-standing position that new policy priorities require fresh money; insists that the additional resources assigned to the EDF for the remainder of the MFF period be used for STEP objectives;objectives as per the agreement of the co-legislators;
Change 3
Changed8. Welcomes the additional EUR 500 million for the Western Balkans, placed in reserve subject to the adoption of the proposed regulation establishing the Growth and Reform Facility for the Western Balkans; emphasises that the inclusion in Draft amending budget No 1/2024 of the amounts and proposed nomenclature for that Facility does not prejudge the work of the co-legislators; points out, in that regard,out that it does not consider the nomenclature as set out in Draft amending budget No 1/2024 to be fit for purpose and intendsintends, towith ensurethe greaterCouncil, granularityto andreview thereforethe betternomenclature oversightas forpart of the 2025 budgetary authority;procedure in order to ensure appropriate political and budgetary scrutiny;
Change 4
Changed10. Welcomes the fact that the Union will be better able to respond to crises as a result of the increased financing for natural disasters and other emergencies included in Draft amending budget No 1/2024; notes that Draft amending budget No 1/2024 creates new lines in accordance with the decision to split the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve into two parts - the European Solidarity Reserve for natural disasters and public health emergencies within the Union and in accession countries and the Emergency Aid Reserve for rapid response to emergencies inside and outside the Union; considers that the new architecture will make the funds easier to manage;manage and recalls the importance of swift treatment of applications under the European Union Solidarity Fund and timely mobilisation of the two reserves to ensure rapid disbursement of funds;
Change 5
Changed11. ExpectsRecalls that humanitarian aid for Ukraine is not covered by the Ukraine Facility and fully expects needs globally to remain high and likely further increase in 2024;2024 in a context where Humanitarian Aid is under-budgeted; taking into account budgetary implementation in recent years, calls on the Commission to monitor thosehumanitarian aid needs closely and to propose any necessary measures to the budgetary authority in good time; recalls, in that regard, that the Flexibility Instrument has been reinforced by around EUR 500 million for 2024 as part of the MFF revision;
Change 6
Changed12. Notes that the 2024 allocation for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) is reduced to EUR 33,8 million, in accordance with the revised MFF Regulation; calls on the Commission to monitor EGF implementation and for all institutions to take any necessary measures to ensure that all justified requests for EGF supportsupport, as a manifestation of Union solidarity, can be met;
Change 7
Changed13. Takes note of the changes to the budgetary remarks to enable the Digital Europe programme to finance the costs of recruiting contractual agents for the Artificial Intelligence Office established under the recently agreed Artificial Intelligence Act; underlines that such a workaround solution is only necessary owing to insufficient resources under Heading 7 (Administration) and(Administration), to the Commission’s self-imposed stable staffing policy;policy and to the Council’s refusal to address administrative spending in the MFF revision; insists that covering staffing costs for the new Office in this manner is acceptable only as a temporary fix and does not constitute a precedent, that a long-term structural solution under Heading 7 must be found beyond the current MFF;MFF and that spending under Heading 7 must be set at a level that guarantees that the EU has an effective and efficient administration;
Change 8
Changed14. Recalls that, in its executability letter assessing Parliament’s and the Council’s respective readings on the 2024 budget, the Commission stated that the budget remarks should, “as a general rule, [...] reflect the legal base and should be reviewed only if necessary to reflect the changes in applicable legal bases” and “should not propose any changes and modifications to programme general and specific objectives or actions that are not explicitly mentioned in basic acts”; expects that, given the Commission’s evident flexibility in amending the remarks for the Digital Europe programme to accommodate the recruitment of external personnel unrelated to the programme’s implementation, it will apply athe differentsame yardstickdegree of flexibility when assessing any changes to the budgetary remarks that Parliament or the Council may propose in the 2025 budgetary procedure;
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Change 9
Removed15. Underlines the need for additional resources for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (the ‘EPPO’) given Poland’s planned accession in 2024 and the future accession of Sweden and in the context of accelerated implementation of NextGenerationEU funding; regrets that those additional resources were not included in Draft amending budget No 1/2024; calls on the Commission to include reinforcements for the EPPO budget in the next draft amending budget to ensure the EPPO can deliver fully on its mandate;
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European Parliament (2024). “Changes between BUDG-PR-759895 and A-9-2024-0174”. Text, 10 April 2024. from BUDG-PR-759895, to A-9-2024-0174. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/BUDG-PR-759895/compare/A-9-2024-0174 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-2024-04-10,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Changes between BUDG-PR-759895 and A-9-2024-0174}},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-04-10},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/BUDG-PR-759895/compare/A-9-2024-0174}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/BUDG-PR-759895/compare/A-9-2024-0174},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. from BUDG-PR-759895, to A-9-2024-0174. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}