Commissione per i bilanci

Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR) will continue as Chair of the Committee on Budgets having been elected by acclamation on 26 January 2022. During its constituent meeting, the Committee also elected its vice-chairs: Janusz Lewandowski (EPP), Olivier Chastel (RE), Margarida Marques (S&D) and Niclas Herbst (EPP).

The Committee on Budgets will hold two important debates on the Fit for 55 package/new Own Resources proposals and the borrowing strategy for Next Generation EU. For both debates, the basis will be two opinions on CBAM and ETS and a report by Co-rapporteurs Valérie Hayer and José Manuel Fernandes.

The Committee on Budgets will hold a debate on the general rapporteur for the 2023 budget - Section III, Mr Nicolae Stefanuta's, guidelines for next year's budget.

The Committee on Budgets will examine a proposal to mobilise the EGF for €2.8 million to support 450 dismissed workers from the automotive sector in the Cataluña region in Spain. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aims to provide support to people losing their jobs as a result of globalisation and of technological and environmental changes.

The Committee on Budgets will vote on a proposal to mobilise the EGF for €3.7 million to support 297 dismissed workers from Airbus in the Occitanie and Pays de la Loire regions in France. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aims to provide support to people losing their jobs as a result of globalisation and of technological and environmental changes.

The Committee on Budgets will hold a workshop on gender budgeting to take stock of the practical implementation of gender budgeting. The speakers will present concrete experiences made in this field by the Commission and national administrations, and be complemented by the International Women Alliance in this regard.

The President of the European Investment Bank, Dr Werner Hoyer, will present the new development branch of the bank in a joint session of the AFET, DEVE and BUDG committees on 26 January. The new branch was set up following Council conclusions from June 2021 and went into operation on 1 January 2022.

The Committee on Budgets received Commissioner Hahn to look into the Own Resources package proposed by the Commission on 22 December 2021 during its meeting of 13 January. The package comprises three new categories of own resources for the EU budget based on: (i) revenue from the revised ETS, (ii) the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and (iii) a share of the additional corporate tax income which is expected once the OECD/G20 agreement is operationalised at EU level.