Budgetutskottet

The Committee on Budgets held a hearing to assess the current and possible methodologies for tracking social and biodiversity spending in the EU budget and EU policies, on 21 June. The first panel - joint with the ENVI Committee - looked at the biodiversity tracking methodology set out by the Commission. The second panel aimed to provide an overview of possible social tracking methodologies for the EU budget and EU policies.

The Committees on Foreign Affairs, Development and Budgets jointly debated the EU financing for the relief and reconstruction of Ukraine. Ms Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada's Committee on Ukraine's integration into the EU, as well as Gert-Jan Koopman, Director-General of DG BUDG, Katarína Mathernová, Deputy-Director-General of DG NEAR, and Bernadette Frederick, Director in DG ECHO, informed Members on the past and planned EU support to Ukraine.

On Tuesday 7 June, Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, presented the Commission's Draft Budget for the year 2023 to the Members of the Committee on Budgets, thereby formally launching the annual budgetary procedure in line with Article 314 TFEU.