Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2152(DEC)
Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Committee of the Regions
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
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 September 2026 and now EU law.
- 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 17
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Committee of the Regions
Discharge decision adopted Decided by show of hands: no count recorded.
AI summary:Parliament granted discharge to the Secretary-General of the Committee of the Regions for implementing the EU general budget for 2024, Section VII.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The only substantive change corrects the reported percentages of women and men employed by the Committee in 2024. The other changes are formal: updated title and date, and standardised references and punctuation.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The main change is that discharge is postponed instead of granted for 2024. Several new paragraphs call for stronger performance measurement, cost savings, and involvement in EU budget monitoring. New calls address gender balance, anti-fraud, AI ethics, and communication strategy. Other changes are formal or wording: updated references, punctuation, and rephrasing without altering substance.
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.
- Andrey Kovatchev (EPP), Csaba Molnár (S&D), Ondřej Knotek (Patriots), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR), Michal Wiezik (Renew)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- Constitutional Affairs
- Industry, Research and Energy
- Regional Development
- Public Health
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Budgets
- Fisheries
- Economic and Monetary Affairs
- International Trade
- Transport and Tourism
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
- Culture and Education
- Development
- Foreign Affairs
- Legal Affairs
- Security and Defence
- Employment and Social Affairs
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 29 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the Committee of the Regions for the 2024 budget and sets out observations in a resolution.
Tabled for plenary· 12 Mar 2026
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the Committee of the Regions for the 2024 budget and adopts a resolution with observations on its financial management, performance, and governance.
Committee draft· 15 Dec 2025
AI summary:This draft report proposes granting discharge to the Committee of the Regions for the 2024 budget, with observations in a resolution. It notes the Court of Auditors found no specific issues and the budget execution rate was high.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
10 September 2026
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 4 steps
29 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 29 Apr 2026 Adopted text TA10-0132/2026Report A10-0056/2026
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
21 April – 22 April 2026
2 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
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 4 steps
2 March 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
27 January 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
15 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; AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality), AFCO (Constitutional Affairs), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), REGI (Regional Development), SANT (Public Health), IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), BUDG (Budgets), PECH (Fisheries), ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs), INTA (International Trade), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), CULT (Culture and Education), DEVE (Development), AFET (Foreign Affairs), JURI (Legal Affairs), SEDE (Security and Defence), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2152(DEC)