Comisia pentru bugete

In order to finance the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery instrument, the additional dedicated headroom under the Own Resources Ceiling empowers the Commission to mobilise up to EUR 806 billion through bond issuance. The BUDG Committee has decided to draw up an own initiative Implementation report on the EU borrowing strategy.

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. On 27 October, Members of the Committee on Budgets will examine a proposal to mobilise the EGF for €1.2 million to support 300 dismissed workers in the Basque metal sector, in Spain.

On 27 October, Matthew Hudson, Director at DG SANTE, responsible for EU4Health, and Julien Guerrier, Director of the Common Policy Centre at DG RTD, will present the budgetary impacts of the establishment of a European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), on the EU4Health Programme and Cluster Health under Horizon Europe. HERA is foreseen to have a budget of € 6 billion.

On Wednesday 27 October, during the European Gender Equality Week, Members from the Committee on Budgets will exchange views with Jón Blondal, Head of Division for Budgeting and Public Expenditures in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

At its October II plenary sitting, Parliament discussed and adopted its position on Council's reading of the 2022 Draft Budget. The BUDG committee had previously voted on the 1450 amendments tabled to Council's reading on 28 September and on the accompanying resolution on 11 October, prepared under the guidance of the General Rapporteur for the Commission's budget, Mr Karlo Ressler (EPP), and the rapporteur for the other institutions' administrative budget, Mr Damian Boeselager (Greens).

Following the vote on the 1450 budgetary amendments to the Council's reading of the 2022 EU Budget on 28 September, the Committee on Budgets, at its 11 October meeting, adopted a report prepared by the General Rapporteur on the 2022 budget (Section III - Commission), Mr Karlo Ressler (EPP), and the Rapporteur for Other Sections, Mr Damian Boeselager (Greens), which reflects and accompanies the outcome of the budgetary vote.

On Monday 11 October, Commission's Director General for Budget Gert-Jan Koopman presented the Commission's plans and proposals regarding the establishment of a European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), with particular focus on its proposed financing of EUR 6 billion over 2022-2027.

Members from the Committee on Budgets debated the intermediary results of the external study they commissioned on the interaction between the EU budget's own resources and the underlying sectoral policies, such as the 'green' own resources, and resources based on the functioning of the Single market or corporate taxation.

On Tuesday 5th October, Members of the European Parliament debated in plenary the AFET/DEVE/BUDG joint implementation report that seeks to make a political evaluation of the EU Trust Funds (EUTFs) established since 2014 and extended until December 2021, as well as the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRT).