Commission des budgets

On 25 June 2025 the ECA Review 02/2025: "Performance-orientation, accountability and transparency – lessons to be learned from the weaknesses of the RRF" will be presented to Members of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and the Committee of Budgetary Control (CONT) by reporting ECA Members Jorg Kristijan Petrovic and Ivana Maletic.

Members will vote on a proposal to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Moldova relating to floods occurred in September 2024 and Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to floods occurred in October 2024.

The public hearing on "Management and Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events and Natural Disasters in the EU Budget" will examine the effects of the rising frequency and severity of natural disasters on the current EU budget, as well as on the planning and implementation of the EU's long term budget.

On 24 June, Members of the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) will vote on the Commission proposal, which is part of a package aimed at simplifying EU rules, boosting competitiveness, and unlocking additional investment capacity.

Members from the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs will hold on 16 June the 19th Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) with Raffaele Fitto, Executive Vice-President responsible for Cohesion and Reforms, and Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification.

The Committee will vote on the budgetary aspects of the proposal for a regulation amending ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review.

Piotr Serafin, Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration, presented the Commission's Draft Budget for the year 2026 to the Members of the Committee on Budgets, thereby formally launching the annual budgetary procedure in line with Article 314 TFEU.

The Budgetary Support Unit organised a workshop to provide an overview of the revenue side of the EU budget, proposals for new own resources, blockages and possible ways forward. A proposal for new own resourced has been on the table since 2023 and, since it has not made progress, it should be updated in July, along with the EU long-term budget (MFF) post-2027 proposal.

Members voted on the BUDG opinion to the ECON report on the Draghi Report and the Capital Markets Union. The draft opinion focuses on the role of the EU budget in helping to promote investment in the EU economy. In particular, it looked at the role of budgetary guarantees and financial instruments, bearing in mind the performance of the InvestEU Fund.