Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2031(DEC)
2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Joint Undertakings
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) 7 April 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 7 May 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
7 May 2025 · decision 15
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Discharge 2023: Joint Undertakings
Discharge decision adopted On the proposal for a discharge decision: 513 for · 101 against · 39 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:Parliament decided on discharge for several EU joint undertakings for the 2023 budget year, including Clean Aviation, Circular Bio-based Europe, Clean Hydrogen, and Europe's Rail.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The only substantive change removes the obligation for joint undertakings to report on climate mainstreaming and the European Green Deal. All other changes are formal or wording updates: titles, citations, and references to the Court of Auditors are streamlined.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The new version postpones discharge and closure of accounts for all ten joint undertakings for financial year 2023, instead of granting them. It adds numerous new calls and paragraphs on innovation, transparency, gender balance, staffing, and digital sovereignty. It changes several welcomes to notes and adds calls for corrective actions on financial and recruitment issues. It adds specific paragraphs on ITER, universities, and digital sovereignty, and modifies headings. The other changes are formal: numbering updates and minor wording adjustments.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Michal Wiezik (Renew)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Adrián Vázquez Lázara (EPP), Claudiu Manda (S&D), Tamás Deutsch (Patriots), Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR), Terry Reintke (Greens), Younous Omarjee (The Left), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Industry, Research and Energy
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Transport and Tourism· rapporteurGheorghe Falcă (EPP)
- Regional Development
- Public Health
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 7 May 2025
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the executive directors of eleven EU joint undertakings for the 2023 budget and approves closure of their accounts, with observations in a resolution.
Tabled for plenary· 7 Apr 2025
AI summary:The committee report proposes granting discharge and closing accounts for eleven EU joint undertakings for 2023, and includes a resolution with observations and recommendations.
Committee draft· 20 Jan 2025
AI summary:This draft report proposes decisions on granting discharge and closing accounts for eleven EU joint undertakings for 2023, with a resolution of observations.
Committee opinions: Opinion (TRAN), Draft opinion (TRAN)
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 TA10-0089/2025Report A10-0056/2025
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
5 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
7 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.
5 February 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
29 January 2025
TRAN (Transport and Tourism) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
20 January 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
15 November 2024
Draft opinion from TRAN (Transport and Tourism)
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; ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), REGI (Regional Development), SANT (Public Health) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2031(DEC)