Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/0801(NLE)
Partial renewal of Members of the Court of Auditors - RO nominee
Non-legislative procedure (NLE): for example international agreements, appointments or opinions.
A decision the Council takes on its own. Depending on the Treaty article, Parliament either gives its consent — accepting or rejecting the text without amending it — or is consulted and gives an opinion.
Where it stands
Adopted by the Council
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 16 May 2025 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 13 February 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 18 March 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 24 March 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 1 April 2025
- Adopted by the Council(done) 16 May 2025
Decided in plenary
1 April 2025 · decision 8
EU institutions & Parliament, Appointment
Partial renewal of a member of the Court of Auditors - Lucian Romașcanu
Appointment approved 437 for · 128 against · 92 abstained by a large majority
Electronic vote: totals recorded, but not how each MEP voted.
AI summary:Parliament delivered a favourable opinion on the Council's nomination of Lucian Romașcanu as a Member of the Court of Auditors.
What changed
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The committee now delivers a favourable opinion on the nomination, a substantive change from the draft's conditional stance.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Csaba Molnár (S&D), Vlad Vasile-Voiculescu (Renew), Daniel Freund (Greens), Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 1 Apr 2025
AI summary:Parliament delivers a favourable opinion on the nomination of Lucian Romașcanu as a Member of the Court of Auditors.
Tabled for plenary· 24 Mar 2025
AI summary:Parliament delivers a favourable opinion on the Council's nomination of Lucian Romașcanu as a Member of the Court of Auditors.
Committee draft· 3 Mar 2025
AI summary:This draft report concerns the nomination of Lucian Romașcanu as a Member of the Court of Auditors. It proposes that Parliament deliver a favourable or unfavourable opinion on the nomination.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
16 May 2025
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 2 steps
1 April 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 1 Apr 2025 Adopted text TA10-0044/2025Report A10-0039/2025
24 March 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
18 March 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
3 March 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
13 February 2025
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/0801(NLE)