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Next meeting of the Committee on Budgets
11-11-2020 - 09:16
In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.
The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.
The meetings will be with remote participation for Members (being able to view and listen to proceedings, ask for the floor and intervene in the meeting). Other participants are invited to follow the meeting through webstreaming.
Following these decisions, the next BUDG Committee meeting will take place on:
Monday 16 November 2020, 16.45 - 18.15
The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.
The meetings will be with remote participation for Members (being able to view and listen to proceedings, ask for the floor and intervene in the meeting). Other participants are invited to follow the meeting through webstreaming.
Following these decisions, the next BUDG Committee meeting will take place on:
Monday 16 November 2020, 16.45 - 18.15
Highlights
01-12-2020 - 14:11
The plenary vote of 11 November has given Parliament's negotiators a mandate for negotiations with Council on the Union budget for 2021. According to the Lisbon Treaty, the Conciliation Committee, which is composed of an equal number of Council and Parliament representatives, shall immediately be convened. Its aim is to reach agreement on a joint text within twenty-one days of being convened.
18-11-2020 - 14:43
On 16 November, the Members of Parliament’s negotiating team on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and Own Resources debriefed the committee on the outlines of a political agreement on future EU financing reached with the German Presidency on 10 November after ten weeks of intense negotiations. Parliament fully achieved its objectives of securing top-ups for key MFF programmes, introducing additional new Own Resources, strengthening the role of the budgetary authority
18-11-2020 - 14:42
At the BUDG/CONT joint meeting on 12 November 2020, Members of both committees approved the new conditionality mechanism linking the disbursement of EU funds to the respect of the rule of law in the Member States.
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