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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

From · plenary report· 23 Apr 2025

A-10-2025-0069

on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023, Section X – European External Action Service

To · adopted text· 7 May 2025

TA-10-2025-0086

Discharge 2023: EU general budget - European External Action Service

AI:What changed, in short

Adds a new paragraph on reduced trainee numbers and requests information on their conditions.28 The other changes are formal: updated terminology, punctuation, and renumbering.1234

1 change of substance · 39 formal · 2 of wording only

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+6 added · −5 removed · 41 changed paragraphs, packaging included.

Part 1 of 3: 1. PROPOSAL FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

Removed:1. PROPOSAL FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

Added:P10_TA(2025)0086

Changed:on discharge in respect of the implementationDischarge of2023: theEU general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023, Section X –- European External Action Service

Removed:(2024/2024(DEC))

Added:Committee on Budgetary Control

Added:PE764.994

Added:1. European Parliament decision of 7 May 2025 on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023, Section X – European External Action Service (2024/2024(DEC))

16 unchanged paragraphs

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023,

– having regard to the consolidated annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2023 (COM(2024)0272 – C100072/2024),

– having regard to the European External Action Service’s annual activity report for 2023 and its annual report on budgetary and financial management for 2023,

– having regard to the Court of Auditors’ annual report on the implementation of the budget concerning the financial year 2023, together with the institutions’ replies,

– having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors for the financial year 2023, pursuant to Article 287 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to Article 314(10) and Articles 317, 318 and 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012, and in particular Articles 59, 118 and 260 to 263 thereof,

– having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, and in particular Articles 59, 118 and 266 to 269 thereof,

– having regard to Council Decision 2010/427/EU of 26 July 2010 establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service, and in particular Article 8 thereof,

– having regard to Rule 102 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

– having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,

– having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A10-0069/2025),

1. Grants the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European External Action Service for the financial year 2023;

2. Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

3. Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution forming an integral part of it to the European External Action Service, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, the European Ombudsman and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).