Budžeta komiteja

Following the vote on the 978 budgetary amendments to the Council's reading of the 2025 EU Budget on 7 October, the Committee on Budgets will, at its 14 October meeting, vote on a report prepared by the General Rapporteur on the 2025 budget (Section III - Commission), Mr Victor Negrescu (S&D), and the Rapporteur for other sections, Mr Niclas Herbst (EPP), which will reflect and accompany the outcome of the budgetary vote.

Members will vote on the draft report prepared by Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP) on the European Commission's proposal for a decision to mobilize the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) to support 513 displaced Belgian workers from the Match-Smatch supermarket.

BUDG members will exchange with Elena Calistru, Rapporteur for the European Economic and Social Committe (EESC) opinion on "Enhancing Fiscal Transparency through Participatory Budgeting in the EU", and with Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, Rapporteur for the Committee of the Regions (CoR) own-initiative opinion "EU budget and place based policies: proposals for new design and delivery mechanisms for the MFF post 2027".

This meeting of the Committee on Budgets marked an important milestone of the budgetary year, as Members processed the 978 amendments tabled to the Council's position on the Commission's Draft Budget 2025.

Members adopted a proposal to mobilize the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide support to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France in the wake of a series of major floods which took place in 2023. The rapporteur for the file is Georgios Aftias (EPP, Greece).

Members from the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs held the first Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) of the new term with Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President responsible for an Economy that Works for People, also in charge of Trade, and Paolo Gentiloni, Commissioner for Economy.

Council's reading on the 2025 EU budget has been adopted by COREPER on 17 July 2024 and will be submitted to the Council for approval. Compared to the Commission's Draft Budget 2025, the Council cuts EUR 1 519.9 million in commitments and EUR 875.6 million in payments for the MFF Headings.