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On discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024, Section III – Commission
Document FEMM-PA-779730 · 2025/2145(DEC)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee draft FEMM-PA-779730
- Date
- 27 November 2025
- Committee
- Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
- Rapporteur
- Raquel García HermidaVan Der Walle
- Dossier
- 2025/2145(DEC)
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- Subject matter
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- Reference
- 2025/2145(DEC)
In short
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This draft opinion for the 2024 budget discharge calls on the Commission to improve gender mainstreaming, including gender budgeting and impact assessments, across EU policies. It regrets insufficient methodology and data on gender expenditure, and asks for better tracking of negative impacts and improved data quality. It also requests gender analyses in EU funding programmes and the next MFF, and an analysis of what percentage of the EU budget should support gender equality.
Position. The opinion proposes that the Committee on Budgetary Control incorporate these calls into its motion for a resolution on the 2024 discharge to the Commission.
Key points
- Acknowledges the Union's commitment to gender mainstreaming and improving methodology for tracking gender expenditure.
- Regrets that the Commission's methodology is insufficient, as it does not capture negative effects and leaves uncertainty 20% of the time regarding its gender impact.
- Calls on the Commission to improve the methodology and track negative impacts.
- Welcomes the update of the better regulation guidelines and toolbox, but regrets lack of progress in gender analyses for EU funding programmes.
- Calls on the Commission to execute gender analyses consistently and to begin the impact assessment of the next MFF, including gender analyses.
- Notes that information on the EU budget's gender impact remains insufficient and highlights shortcomings in manual collection, reporting and evaluation of gender-disaggregated data.
- Calls on the Commission to improve data quality.
- Calls on the Commission to analyse what percentage of the EU budget should support gender equality.
- Calls for objectives and performance indicators in all future legislation, including the next MFF.
Who is affected
- The Commission, which must improve gender budgeting methodology, data quality, and conduct gender analyses.
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Opinion
The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following into its motion for a resolution:
A.whereas gender equality is a founding value of the Union and the Union is committed to promoting equality in all activities under Article 8 TFEU, establishing gender mainstreaming; whereas budgets are not gender neutral and must be drawn up and discharged with the objective of gender equality;
B.whereas Parliament has repeatedly called on the Commission to promote and implement gender mainstreaming, including gender budgeting and gender impact assessments, across all Union policies;
C.whereas the Commission has not yet analysed the appropriateness of proposing a percentage of the EU budget to support gender equality;
1.Acknowledges the Union’s commitment to gender mainstreaming and improving the methodology for tracking gender expenditure; regrets that the Commission’s methodology remains insufficient, as it does not capture negative effects and leaves uncertainty 20% of the time regarding its gender impact; calls on the Commission to improve the methodology and track negative impacts;
2.Welcomes the update of the better regulation guidelines and toolbox; regrets the lack of progress in conducting gender analyses of needs and impacts for EU funding programmes; calls on the Commission to execute such analyses consistently; instructs it to begin the impact assessment of the next MFF, including gender analyses;
3.Notes that information on the EU budget’s gender impact remains insufficient; highlights shortcomings in manual collection, reporting and evaluation of gender-disaggregated data; calls on the Commission to improve data quality;
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European Parliament (2025). “DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024, Section III – Commission”. Text, 27 November 2025. docId FEMM-PA-779730. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-779730 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/FEMM-PA-779730 (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-femm-pa-779730,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024, Section III – Commission}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-11-27},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-779730}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-779730},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId FEMM-PA-779730. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}