Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2121(INI)
Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on 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
Plenary vote
Tabled for plenary on 21 July 2026; awaiting the vote.
- Referred to committee(done) 19 June 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 14 July 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 21 July 2026
- Plenary vote Awaiting the vote
- 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.
- Ondřej Knotek (Patriots)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP), Eero Heinäluoma (S&D), Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR), Pasquale Tridico (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Tabled for plenary· 21 Jul 2026
AI summary:Parliament's resolution on combating VAT fraud examines how well cross-border cooperation works and what VAT fraud costs the EU budget. It calls for a stronger EU anti-fraud architecture in the post-2027 multiannual financial framework, with better information exchange and funding for the EU's anti-fraud bodies.
Committee draft· 8 Jun 2026
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 1 step
21 July 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
14 July 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
26 June 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
8 June 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
19 June 2025
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2121(INI)