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Next meeting of the Budgetary Control Committee (CONT)

The next CONT meeting will take place on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 February 2025.
Highlights

On 28 January 2025, the ECA Special Report 14/2024 "Green transition – Unclear contribution from the Recovery and Resilience Facility" was presented to Members of the Committee of Budgetary Control (CONT) and Committee on Budgets (BUDG) by ECA reporting Member Joëlle Elvinger. Members from both the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) were also invited to participate to this joint BUDG-CONT meeting.

On 28 January 2025 the ECA Special Report 24/2024 "EU Civil service – A flexible employment framework, insufficiently used to improve workforce management" was presented by ECA reporting Member Jorg Kristijan Petrovič. The Parliament, Commission, and Council participated in a Joint BUDG-CONT meeting with members from the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) for a productive discussion during the presentation of this Special Report.

On 28 January 2025, the Committee on Budgetary Control voted on the opinion for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Budgets on Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova.

On 27 and 28 January 2025, CONT Members considered the draft reports on the financial year 2023 discharge to the European Parliament, the Other Institutions (European Council and Council, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Auditors, European External Action Service, European Economic and Social Committee, European Committee of the Regions, European Ombudsman, European Data Protection Supervisor, European Public Prosecutor's Office) and the Joint Undertakings.

On 27 January 2025, the Members of the Committee on Budgetary Control considered the draft own-initiative report (INI) on the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023.

On 16 January 2025 the ECA Special Report 15/2024 "Climate adaptation in the EU" was presented to Members of the Committee of Budgetary Control (CONT) and Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) by reporting ECA Member Klaus-Heiner Lehne.
Activity Report 2019-2024
Discharge Procedure
CONT Members scrutinise the implementation of the EU Budget by the European Commission and all the other EU intuitions and bodies.
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