Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0091(BUD)
Draft amending budget no 1 to the general budget 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
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 12 September 2025 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 19 June 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 24 June 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 26 June 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 9 July 2025
- Published as law(done) 12 September 2025
Decided in plenary
9 July 2025 · decision 3
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
Passed 534 for · 102 against · 56 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The spending was approved, meaning the surplus reduces member states' GNI-based contributions to the 2025 budget.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points and wording: the title of the draft amending budget is completed, a percentage format is corrected, and two abbreviations are spelled out.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The changes add emphasis on legally binding commitments and expand the call for new own resources to address higher spending needs and geopolitical challenges. The other changes are formal: capitalisation and punctuation updates.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Victor Negrescu (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Andrzej Halicki (EPP), Auke Zijlstra (Patriots), Bogdan Rzońca (ECR), Fabienne Keller (Renew), Rasmus Andresen (Greens), Nikolas Farantouris (The Left), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 9 Jul 2025
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 budget surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget.
Tabled for plenary· 26 Jun 2025
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget.
Committee draft· 14 May 2025
AI summary:The draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget. Parliament approves the Council position but calls for sustainable revenue and flexibility.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
12 September 2025
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 3 steps
9 July 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 9 Jul 2025 Report A10-0116/2025Adopted text TA10-0151/2025
2 July 2025
6 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
26 June 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
24 June 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
19 June 2025
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
13 June 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.
14 May 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0091(BUD)