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What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report

From · draft committee report· 25 Oct 2024

BUDG-PR-765136

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

To · plenary report· 22 Nov 2024

A-10-2024-0017

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2024 of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

AI:What changed, in short

Adds a call for own resources reform and sustainable revenue, and extends cybersecurity support to institutions, while adjusting language on agency funding and tasks.15 Modifies wording on eu-LISA and EUAA appropriations, noting concern about cost increases and welcoming EUAA reinforcement, with calls for agencies to be equipped.4 Removes a phrase about decentralised agencies' budgets under Heading 7, simplifying the statement without changing substance.3 The other changes are formal: updating a regulation reference with official details.2

3 changes of substance · 1 formal · 1 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 · 3

Change 1 Substance

AI summary:Adds a paragraph reiterating the need for sustainable revenue, deploring lack of Council progress on own resources reform, and urging swift adoption of amended Commission proposals.

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Added:5. Reiterates the need for long-term sustainable revenue for the Union budget, which has been severely stretched to respond to various crises in recent years; deplores, therefore, the absence of 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:Changes wording on eu-LISA and EUAA appropriations: notes cost increase with concern, welcomes EUAA reinforcement, and calls for agencies to be equipped for tasks, replacing previous phrasing.

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Changed:9.10. Notes the increase in appropriations for European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA) to cover rising costscosts, andthough is concerned about the corresponding decrease in appropriations for the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA); recallswelcomes the fact that the EUAA was reinforced as part of the mid-term revision of the MFF in order to enable it to carry out new tasks inwith accordancerespect withto the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum; calls on the Commission to work closely with theboth agencyagencies to ensure that itthey isare equipped to perform those newtheir tasks in full and absorb the additional appropriations fromassigned 2025;to them;

Change 5 Substance

AI summary:Extends cybersecurity support request to include institutions, not just agencies, and adds a clause about preventing attacks from compromising any Union entity.

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Changed:10.11. Welcomes the additional appropriations for the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) in 2024 in the wake of the June 2024 cyber-attack on the agency; insists on the need for lessons to be learnt and for further technical support to be provided to other agencies and institutions by the Cybersecurity Service for the Union entities (CERT-EU), in view of the high cybersecurity threat;threat and in order to ensure that another attack does not compromise any Union agency or institution;

1 formal change: legal basis, citations, references, corrections

Change 2 Formal

AI summary:Updates a reference to the regulation establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism, replacing placeholder text with the official regulation number and full institutional names.

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Changed:6.7. Recalls that additional MFA loans will be underwritten by the budget’s headroom and reiterates its call to the Commission to provide the budgetary authority with details on the aggregation of liabilities to the headroom contingent on borrowing and lending operations; expects the Commission to provide Parliament and Council with all necessary information as per its statement annexed to Regulation [..] establishing(EU) the2024/2773 Ukraineof Loanthe CooperationEuropean MechanismParliament and providing exceptional macro-financial assistanceof tothe Ukraine;Council;

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Change 3 Wording

AI summary:Removes the phrase 'as separate from administrative spending under Heading 7 of the MFF' from a sentence about decentralised agencies' budgets, simplifying the statement.

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Changed:8.9. Underlines that the salary adjustment also affects decentralised agencies, which have been struggling with inflation above the 2 % deflator by which their annual budgets increase and are particular insofar as staff and operating costs represent a large portion of their outgoings; welcomes the fact that agencies that could not find the resources through redeployments see a 1,7 % increase in the Union contribution; reiterates 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;