Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2071(INI)
Evaluating the successes achieved and lessons learned from EU enlargements since 2004 in the implementation of the EU budget
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Committee work
In committee: CONT (Budgetary Control) is preparing the report (draft published 23 June 2026).
- Referred to committee(done) 3 April 2025
- Committee work CONT (Budgetary Control) preparing the report
- Tabled for plenary(to come)
- Plenary vote(to come)
- Parliament’s position(to come)
No plenary decision on this dossier is in our records yet.
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), Ondřej Knotek (Patriots), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR), Vlad Vasile-Voiculescu (Renew), Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Committee draft· 23 Jun 2026
AI summary:This is a draft report by the Committee on Budgetary Control on the lessons from EU enlargements since 2004 for the EU budget. It finds that administrative capacity, institutional stability, digital readiness and audit culture matter more than the choice of governance model.
Timeline
Newest first.
Committee stage 3 steps
22 July 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
23 June 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
3 April 2025
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2071(INI)