Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2148(DEC)
Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Court of Justice of the European Union
Discharge procedure · First reading
Parliament checks how an EU institution or agency spent a past year’s budget and signs it off — or refuses to.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 29 April 2026. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 9 September 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 2 March 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 12 March 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 29 April 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
29 April 2026 · decision 12
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union
Discharge decision adopted Decided by show of hands: no count recorded.
AI summary:Parliament granted discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice for implementing the EU general budget for 2024, approving the spending.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: the resolution heading is updated and decimal separators are corrected.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The decision on discharge is postponed instead of granted, and several new calls and emphases are added on budget planning, judicial reform reporting, gender balance, AI limits, and cybersecurity. Some figures are updated: transferred preliminary rulings from 20 to 19, burnout cases from 19 to 17, training participants from 747 to 561, green tenders from eleven to eight, and social media growth percentages. Other changes are formal or wording: renumbering, punctuation fixes, acronym expansions, and minor rephrasing.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Pasquale Tridico (The Left)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Caterina Chinnici (EPP), José Cepeda (S&D), Ondřej Knotek (Patriots), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Culture and Education
- Economic and Monetary Affairs
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Public Health
- Industry, Research and Energy
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Regional Development
- Legal Affairs· rapporteurIlhan Kyuchyuk (Renew)
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- Budgets
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Fisheries
- Development
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Transport and Tourism
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Constitutional Affairs
- Security and Defence
- Foreign Affairs
- International Trade
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 29 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice for the EU general budget for 2024 and adopts observations on the Court's budget management, performance, staff, ethics, digitalisation, buildings, environment, cooperation and communication.
Tabled for plenary· 12 Mar 2026
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice for the 2024 budget and adopts observations on the Court's financial management, performance, and operations.
Committee draft· 16 Dec 2025
AI summary:This draft report concerns the discharge for the Court of Justice of the European Union for the 2024 budget. It proposes granting discharge and includes a resolution with observations.
Committee opinions: Opinion (JURI), Draft opinion (JURI)
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 3 steps
29 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 29 Apr 2026 Adopted text TA10-0128/2026Report A10-0055/2026
28 April 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 28 Apr 2026 Council / Commission text C10-0145/2025Council / Commission text C10-0146/2025Council / Commission text C10-0147/2025Council / Commission text C10-0148/2025Council / Commission text C10-0149/2025Council / Commission text C10-0150/2025Council / Commission text C10-0151/2025Council / Commission text C10-0152/2025Council / Commission text C10-0153/2025Council / Commission text C10-0154/2025Council / Commission text C10-0155/2025Council / Commission text C10-0156/2025Council / Commission text C10-0157/2025Report A10-0046/2026Report A10-0050/2026Report A10-0051/2026Report A10-0052/2026Report A10-0053/2026Report A10-0054/2026Report A10-0055/2026Report A10-0056/2026Report A10-0057/2026Report A10-0059/2026Report A10-0081/2026Report A10-0085/2026Report A10-0087/2026
12 March 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 5 steps
2 March 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
28 January 2026
JURI (Legal Affairs) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
28 January 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
16 December 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
9 September 2025
Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; CULT (Culture and Education), ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), SANT (Public Health), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), REGI (Regional Development), JURI (Legal Affairs), FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality), BUDG (Budgets), IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), PECH (Fisheries), DEVE (Development), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), AFCO (Constitutional Affairs), SEDE (Security and Defence), AFET (Foreign Affairs), INTA (International Trade) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2148(DEC)