The President announced that the DEVE Committee and the BUDG Committee, consulted in line with Article 234 of the Financial Regulation, had submitted their joint position on the extension of a trust fund, namely:
— the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, set to expire on 31 December 2020.
(Joint position of the Committee on Development and the Committee on Budgets as the competent committees consulted in line with Article 234 of the Financial Regulation (2018/1046) on the extension of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa established on 12 November 2015 and set to expire on 31 December 2020)
If no objections to this joint position were raised by a political group or a number of Members reaching at least the low threshold within 24 hours of its announcement, it would be officially forwarded to the European Commission.