Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/0089(BUD)
Draft amending budget no 2 to the general budget 2024 entering the surplus of the financial year 2023
Budget procedure (BUD): Parliament and the Council adopt the EU’s annual budget together. · First reading
A decision on EU spending: the annual budget, amending budgets or emergency funds.
Where it stands
Published as law
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 December 2024 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 7 October 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 7 October 2024
- Tabled for plenary(done) 8 October 2024
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 22 October 2024
- Published as law(done) 10 December 2024
Decided in plenary
22 October 2024 · decision 3
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023
Passed 531 for · 91 against · 35 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The draft amending budget enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The only substantive change is that the amending budget number in the final instruction is corrected from 2/2024 to 3/2024. The other changes are formal: adding the word "No" in references to the draft amending budget.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:Adds emphasis on budget flexibility and increasing needs, and calls for progress on own resources reform.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Siegfried Mureşan (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Victor Negrescu (S&D), Bogdan Rzońca (ECR), Fabienne Keller (Renew), Rasmus Nordqvist (Greens), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 22 Oct 2024
AI summary:Parliament approved the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.
Tabled for plenary· 8 Oct 2024
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.
Committee draft· 28 Aug 2024
AI summary:The draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget. It approves the Council position and notes the surplus components and the impact on member state contributions.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
10 December 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 2 steps
22 October 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 22 Oct 2024 Report A10-0005/2024Adopted text TA10-0023/2024
8 October 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps
7 October 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
7 October 2024
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
28 August 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/0089(BUD)