Changes between two versions
What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report
From · draft committee report· 14 May 2025
on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
To · plenary report· 26 Jun 2025
on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
AI:What changed, in short
The changes add emphasis on legally binding commitments and expand the call for new own resources to address higher spending needs and geopolitical challenges.456 The other changes are formal: capitalisation and punctuation updates.123
3 changes of substance · 3 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 · 3
Change 4 Substance
AI summary:Adds 'legally binding' to describe the roadmap and updates the reference to the Interinstitutional Agreement with its date.
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Changed:7. Emphasises the need for sustainable revenue for the Union budget; deplores, therefore, the complete absence of progress in the Council on the reform of the own resources system in line with the spirit of the legally binding roadmap in the interinstitutionalInterinstitutional agreement;Agreement of 16 December 2020; recalls its position in support of the amended Commission proposals and urges the Council to adopt those proposals as a matter of urgency in order to diversify and consolidate the own resources available to the Union budget;
Change 5 Substance
AI summary:Adds a clause stressing that new own resources must cover higher spending needs, including geopolitical challenges, and that new policies require new financial means.
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Changed:8. Calls furthermore,furthermore on the Commission to continue efforts to identify additional innovative and genuine new own resources and other revenue sources beyond those specified in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020; stresses that new own resources are essential not only to enable repayment of NGEU borrowing, but to ensure that the Union is equipped to cover its the higher spending needs, in particular in the context of the multiple challenges the Union is currently facing, including the new geopolitical context; considers that all new Union policies and challenges must involve new financial means and additional fresh resources;
Change 6 Substance
AI summary:Drops the phrase 'higher spending needs' from the end of paragraph 8.
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Removed:higher spending needs;
3 formal changes: legal basis, citations, references, corrections
Change 1 Formal
AI summary:Updates capitalisation and punctuation in the reference to amending budgets No 1-5.
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Changed:C. whereas, on the revenue side, the primary driver for the volume of the surplus is an amount of EUR 1 211 million in financial revenue, default interest and fines; whereas the outturn of the own resources in title 1 remains very close to the budgeted amounts in 2024 budget (including Amending Budgetsbudgets No 1-5);
Change 2 Formal
AI summary:Capitalises 'Title' in the reference to Title 4.
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Changed:2. Welcomes the fact that the 2024 surplus is driven primarily by an increase in the variation in titleTitle 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines), while the surplus of expenditure remains very modest at EUR 273 million;
Change 3 Formal
AI summary:Capitalises 'Article' in the reference to Article 425.
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Changed:6. Takes note of the negative income item under the new articleArticle 425, amounting to EUR 534 million and welcomes this method of incorporating costs for the budget stemming from payment made under settlement agreement entailing compensatory interest and default interest compensation related to the repayment of annulled or reduced competition fines in accordance with the pertinent judgements of the Court of Justice; recalls that the Parliament, when negotiating the recast of the Financial Regulation, had insisted on the application of this approach since the alternative solution would have been additional expenditure appropriations in the already overstretched Heading 7; recalls that this solution comes to an end on 31 December 2027; invites the Commission to propose a definitive solution for the next MFF that achieves the same objective of avoiding any impact on the expenditure side of the budget;