Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0319(BUD)
Draft amending budget no 3 to the general budget 2025 - Adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates
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 26 January 2026 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 24 November 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 20 November 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 20 November 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 26 November 2025
- Published as law(done) 26 January 2026
Decided in plenary
26 November 2025 · decision 4
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Draft amending budget No 3/2025: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates
Passed 519 for · 99 against · 45 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The adopted budget increases payment appropriations by EUR 2.52 billion and commitment appropriations by EUR 123.7 million, while incorporating additional revenues from fines and customs duties.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in wording: acronyms are expanded and a phrase is clarified.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The new version adds a paragraph on salary adjustments for 2025, agreeing to integrate their impact and noting a reduction of EUR 78.8 million under Heading 7.
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· 26 Nov 2025
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025, which adjusts payment appropriations, updates revenues, and makes technical updates to the 2025 EU budget.
Tabled for plenary· 20 Nov 2025
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025, which updates revenues and adjusts payment appropriations for the 2025 EU budget.
Committee draft· 29 Oct 2025
AI summary:The draft report concerns the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025, which updates revenues and adjusts payment appropriations. Parliament approves the position, noting a net increase of EUR 123.7 million in commitments and EUR 2.52 billion in payments.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
26 January 2026
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 2 steps
26 November 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 26 Nov 2025 Report A10-0237/2025Adopted text TA10-0293/2025
24 November 2025
5 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Committee stage 1 step
24 November 2025
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Plenary stage 1 step
20 November 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps
20 November 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
10 November 2025
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.
29 October 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0319(BUD)