Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2028(DEC)
2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Data Protection Supervisor
Discharge procedure · First reading
Parliament checks how an EU institution or agency spent a past year’s budget and signs it off — or refuses to.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 8 October 2025 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 17 September 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 18 March 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 1 April 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 7 May 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
7 May 2025 · decision 11
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Data Protection Supervisor
Discharge decision adopted On the proposal for a discharge decision: 564 for · 61 against · 43 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The decision covers Section IX of the budget and includes observations in a resolution, which will be forwarded to EU institutions and published.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal and wording changes: typographical fixes, punctuation adjustments, and citation updates.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:Adds calls for the EDPS to avoid inadmissible legal actions, cooperate with institutions, and finalise investigations on time. Adds concerns about mission costs and transparency, urging assessment and use of video-conferencing. Adds calls for gender parity, geographical balance, and mandatory ethics training in HR section. Adds calls for transparency on conflicts of interest, Transparency Register membership, and cybersecurity reporting. Adds calls for EMAS adoption and cooperation on fraud detection, plus notes on OLAF and minors' data.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Kinga Kollár (EPP), Csaba Molnár (S&D), Virginie Joron (Patriots), Vlad Vasile-Voiculescu (Renew), Damian Boeselager (Greens), Pasquale Tridico (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Legal Affairs
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs· rapporteurTomáš Zdechovský (EPP)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 7 May 2025
AI summary:Parliament grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge for the 2023 budget and adopts a resolution with observations on budget management, HR, ethics, digitalisation, and interinstitutional cooperation.
Tabled for plenary· 1 Apr 2025
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor for the 2023 budget and adopts a resolution with observations. The resolution notes budget implementation, staffing, and calls for improvements in transparency, gender balance, and environmental practices.
Committee draft· 17 Dec 2024
AI summary:This draft report proposes granting the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge for the 2023 budget, with observations in a resolution. It notes budget implementation, performance, and challenges.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (LIBE), Opinion (LIBE)
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
8 October 2025
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 4 steps
7 May 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 7 May 2025 Adopted text TA10-0085/2025Report A10-0053/2025
6 May 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 6 May 2025 Council / Commission text C10-0067/2024Council / Commission text C10-0068/2024Council / Commission text C10-0069/2024Council / Commission text C10-0070/2024Council / Commission text C10-0071/2024Council / Commission text C10-0072/2024Council / Commission text C10-0073/2024Council / Commission text C10-0074/2024Council / Commission text C10-0075/2024Council / Commission text C10-0076/2024Council / Commission text C10-0077/2024Council / Commission text C10-0078/2024Council / Commission text C10-0079/2024Report A10-0046/2025Report A10-0047/2025Report A10-0050/2025Report A10-0051/2025Report A10-0052/2025Report A10-0053/2025Report A10-0054/2025Report A10-0055/2025Report A10-0056/2025Report A10-0062/2025Report A10-0065/2025Report A10-0069/2025Report A10-0074/2025
30 April 2025
4 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
1 April 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 6 steps
18 March 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
10 February 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
6 February 2025
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
17 December 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
13 November 2024
Draft opinion from LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
17 September 2024
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; JURI (Legal Affairs), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2028(DEC)