What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text

Changed:8. Welcomes the additional EUR 500 million for the Western Balkans, placed in reserve subject to the adoption of the proposed regulation establishing the GrowthReform and ReformGrowth Facility for the Western Balkans; points out that it does not consider the nomenclature as set out in Draft amending budget No 1/2024 to be fit for purpose and intends, with the Council, to review the nomenclature as part of the 2025 budgetary procedure in order to ensure appropriate political and budgetary scrutiny;

Changed:13. Takes note of the changes to the budgetary remarks to enable the Digital Europe programme to finance the costs of recruiting contractual agents for the Artificial Intelligence Office established under the recently agreed Artificial Intelligence Act; underlines that such a workaround solution is only necessary owing to insufficient resources under Heading 7 (Administration), to the Commission’s self-imposed stable staffing policy and to the Council’s refusal to address administrative spending in the MFF revision; insists that covering staffing costs for the new Office in this manner is acceptable only as a temporary fix and does not constitute a precedent, that a long-term structural solution under Heading 7 must be found beyond the current MFF and that spending under Heading 7 must be set at a level that guarantees that the EUUnion has an effective and efficient administration;