Changes between two versions
What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report
From · draft committee report· 10 Sept 2024
on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies
To · plenary report· 15 Oct 2024
on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies
AI:What changed, in short
The new version adds calls for better forecasting of revenue, sustainable revenue, and agency funding, and stresses the need for flexibility and reflection on budget treatment.2345 It also expands a reference to the multiannual financial framework.1
5 changes of substance · 0 formal · 1 of wording only
Written by AI from the two texts only · read the changes before relying on it · 4 Sept 2026 · Report a problem
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 · 5
Change 2 Substance
AI summary:Adds a call on the Commission to examine scope for improving forecasting of customs duties and the United Kingdom contribution.
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Changed:2. Takes note that the decrease in the amount of own resources other than GNI (in particular with respect to customs duties) and in the size of the UKUnited Kingdom contribution to the budget results in an increase in GNI contributions of EUR 5,63 billion; notes that there is a significant divergence from the initial forecasting of customs duties and the United Kingdom contribution and calls on the Commission to examine scope for improving its forecasting, which is vital for the predictability of budgetary planning;
Change 3 Substance
AI summary:Replaces a call for the Council to adopt Commission proposals with a call for sustainable revenue, deploring lack of progress on own resources reform and urging adoption.
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Changed:4. UrgesEmphasises the Councilneed for sustainable revenue for the Union budget, which has been severely stretched to adoptrespond swiftlyto various crises in recent years; deplores, therefore, the Commissionabsence proposalsof progress in the Council on the reform of the own resources system in line with the roadmap in the Interinstitutional Agreement; recalls its position in support of the amended Commission proposals and urges the Council and the Member States to adopt those proposals swiftly in order to increase the own resources available to the Union budget; recalls its long-standing position that fines and fees should be used as supplementary revenue for the Union budget;
Change 4 Substance
AI summary:Adds a call for agencies to have necessary staff and budget, and deplores that additional resources often reduce programme envelopes.
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Changed:5. NotesReiterates its long-standing position that new priorities require fresh financing; notes the series of adjustments to the budgets of decentralised agencies, primarily in accordance with tasks assigned to them under recently adopted legislation; underlinesrecalls that agencies must have the necessary staff and budget to properly fulfil their mandates; deplores that, in several cases, additional resources for a decentralised agency entail a corresponding reduction in the programme envelope;
Change 5 Substance
AI summary:Adds a stress on the need for budgetary flexibility to adjust agencies' resources in line with mandate changes during the MFF.
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Changed:6. Regrets that, in the current multiannual financial framework (MFF),MFF, a total of EUR 1,5 billion has so far been, or is proposed to be, redeployed from programmes to decentralised agencies; underlines that the magnitude of the redeployments is symptomatic of the stretched resources available to the Union budget;budget and stresses the need for budgetary flexibility to adjust agencies’ resources in line with changes to their mandates and tasks during the MFF;
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Change 6 Substance
AI summary:Adds a call for reflection on treating agencies' budgets as separate from administrative spending under Heading 7 in post-2027 MFF preparations.
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Changed:7. Notes that Draft amending budget No 4/2024 entails an increase of EUR 2 million for Eurojust owing to inflationary pressure; considersunderlines that,that inflationary pressure is clearly a challenge for all decentralised agencies, with inflation running above the annual 2%2 % deflator by which the MFF ceilings increase and staff and operating costs for decentralised agencies under substantial pressure as a result, considers that the current treatment of decentralised agencies’ budgets as separate from administrative spending under Heading 7 of the MFF requires further reflection as part of the Commission’s preparations for the post-2027 MFF;
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Change 1 Wording
AI summary:Expands the reference to Heading 2b by adding the full name of the multiannual financial framework.
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Changed:D. whereas Draft amending budget No 4/2024 proposes a number of adjustments to the financing of decentralised agencies, with a net increase of EUR 12 million overall and a proposal to mobilise the Flexibility Instrument for an amount of EUR 13,2 million to cover increases for the European Medicines Agency and Eurojust in the absence of any available margin under Heading 2b,2b of the multiannual financial framework (the “MFF”),