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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
From · plenary report· 4 Nov 2025
on the 2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget
To · adopted text· 25 Nov 2025
2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget
AI:What changed, in short
Softens several requirements: drops mandatory suspension, quotas, and legally binding minimum share.111213 Adds safeguards against unintended consequences in strategic sectors like defence and calls for measures to avoid adverse investment effects.69 Strengthens the call for ex ante impact assessments to consider and minimise negative effects on gender equality.10 The other changes are formal: decimal commas and list formatting.1234
6 changes of substance · 7 formal · 0 of wording only
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Changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations and punctuation-only edits are left out; they are under “Every difference”.
Changes of substance · 6
Change 6 Substance
AI summary:Adds a sentence underlining that the Commission's methodology should avoid unintended consequences, such as discouraging investments in strategic but single-gender-dominated sectors, including defence.
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Changed:4. Stresses that the Commission’s methodology differs from the gender equality policy marker developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as it does not include a score that would allow for tracking the potentially negative effects of EU spending on gender mainstreaming objectives and introduces the category of 0* for interventions with a likely but as yet unclear positive impact on gender equality; underlines that the Commission’s methodology should in any case avoid leading to unintended consequences, such as discouraging or refusing investments in sectors that are strategic yet traditionally dominated by a single gender, including the defence sector;
Change 9 Substance
AI summary:Replaces regret about negative impacts not being taken into account with a note that they are insufficiently considered, especially in sectors like competitiveness and defence, and calls for measures to improve gender equality without adversely affecting investments.
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Change 10 Substance
AI summary:Replaces a call for no legislative proposals to decrease gender equality with a recall that all EU legislative proposals must comply with primary law, and calls for strengthened ex ante impact assessments to consider and minimise negative effects.
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Change 11 Substance
AI summary:Drops the requirement for mandatory suspension or clear indicators from the gender equality safeguard mechanism.
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Changed:29. Urges the Commission to establish a ‘gender equality safeguard mechanism’ as a standard part of the EU’s legislative procedures, which would require the mandatory suspension or revision of any proposal that, through clear indicators or through the analysis of the Court of Auditors, is shown to undermine the EU’s gender equality strategy and objectives;
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Change 12 Substance
AI summary:Drops the creation of quotas from the feasibility assessment for gender parity measures at management level.
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Changed:31. Calls on the Commission to assess the feasibility of introducing further gender equality parity measures at management level and of creating quotas to ensure that all genders are sufficiently involved in policymaking through targeted support schemes;
Change 13 Substance
AI summary:Drops the requirement that the minimum share of the EU budget dedicated to gender equality be legally binding.
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Changed:32. Calls on the Commission to ensure that a legally binding minimum share of the EU budget is dedicated to gender equality as a principal objective (corresponding to score 2 in the current methodology);
7 formal changes: legal basis, citations, references, corrections
Change 1 Formal
AI summary:Replaces decimal points with commas in percentages and euro amounts.
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Changed:J. whereas gender budgeting is a prerequisite for achieving gender equality, and gender equality is in itself a condition for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, including within the EU, where the EIGE has shown through a robust econometric model applied to the specific context of the EU that improving gender equality would result in a series of macroeconomic benefits in several areas, such as education, labour market activity and wages; whereas the EIGE has also shown that gender equality generally has a strong positive impact on GDP per capita, and that improving gender equality would lead to an increase in the EU’s GDP per capita of at least 6.16,1 % and up to 9.69,6 % by 2050, which amounts to EUR 1.951,95 trillion and EUR 3.153,15 trillion respectively;
Change 2 Formal
AI summary:Changes formatting of list item from 'a)-' to '(a)'.
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Changed:a)(a) 2 to interventions of which the principal objective is to improve gender equality;
Change 3 Formal
AI summary:Changes formatting of list item from 'b)-' to '(b)'.
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Changed:b)(b) 1 to interventions that have gender equality as an important and deliberate objective but not as the main reason for the intervention;
Change 4 Formal
AI summary:Changes formatting of list item from 'c)-' to '(c)'.
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Changed:c)(c) 0 to non-targeted interventions, in other words, interventions that are expected to have no significant bearing on gender equality;
Change 5 Formal
AI summary:Changes formatting of list item from 'd)-' to '(d)'.
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Changed:d)(d) 0* to interventions with a likely but as yet unclear positive impact on gender equality;
Change 7 Formal
AI summary:Replaces decimal points with commas in euro amounts.
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Changed:12. Notes that the Commission considers that interventions with an attributed score of 2 or 1 can be considered as promoting gender equality and that considering this, interventions worth EUR 37.9937,99 billion promoted gender equality in 2024, whereas that figure stood at EUR 10.7610,76 billion in 2021, EUR 37.8337,83 billion in 2022 and EUR 47.9947,99 billion in 2023;
Change 8 Formal
AI summary:Replaces decimal point with comma in euro amount.
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Changed:14. Notes that in addition to the results provided for each financial year, in the 2024 Annual Management and Performance Report for the EU Budget the Commission published a reassessment of all the previous results based on more recent and comprehensive assessments of its programmes, which resulted in aggregate trends indicating that for interventions over the period 2021 to 2024, 2 % were given a score of 2, 10 % were given a score of 1, 83 % were given a score of 0 and 5 % were given a score of 0*; further notes that, according to the Commission’s reassessment, in total, in the financial years 2021-2024, 12 % of EU budget expenditure contributed to the promotion of gender (with scores of 1 and 2), amounting to EUR 158.4158,4 billion;