13-05-2025 10:30
Smart Conditionality
Hearings
BUDG
CONT
LIBE
The objective of the joint public hearing was to provide the Members of the BUDG, CONT and LIBE Committees with input from academics and practitioners on how to ensure that final beneficiaries and recipients can continue to receive EU funding where the EU has suspended payments to a Member State due to rule of law breaches by the central government.
Although the Rule of law Conditionality Regulation explicitly requires Member States whose EU funds have been (partially) suspended due to rule of law breaches to respect their obligations towards final recipients and beneficiaries, in practice, the latter are often deprived of EU funding. The concept of 'smart conditionality' should ensure that final recipients and beneficiaries, including local and regional authorities, NGOs, students and other stakeholders, are not punished for the rule of law violations by the central government.
The public hearing fed into Parliament's forthcoming implementation report on the Rule of law conditionality Regulation and the political discussions on the EU's post-2027 multiannual financial framework by gathering input on how smart conditionality can be implemented in practice. This included in particular the necessary legislative changes, if any, to implement the concept.
The public hearing fed into Parliament's forthcoming implementation report on the Rule of law conditionality Regulation and the political discussions on the EU's post-2027 multiannual financial framework by gathering input on how smart conditionality can be implemented in practice. This included in particular the necessary legislative changes, if any, to implement the concept.