Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2157(DEC)
Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Joint Undertakings
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) 23 March 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 29 April 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
29 April 2026 · decision 21
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Discharge 2024: Joint Undertakings
Discharge decision adopted On the proposal for a discharge decision: 525 for · 104 against · 16 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:Parliament granted discharge to the Clean Aviation, Circular Bio-based Europe, Clean Hydrogen, and Europe's Rail Joint Undertakings for the 2024 budget.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: headings updated with dates and reference numbers, and spelling, punctuation, and spacing corrected.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:Postpones discharge decisions and account closures for all twelve Joint Undertakings for financial year 2024. Adds calls for cybersecurity training, climate goals, and reduced reliance on in-kind contributions. Adds detailed concerns about budget execution rates and cash surpluses for several Joint Undertakings. Adds extensive paragraphs on ITER risks, governance, and Russia sanctions. Other changes are formal or wording: punctuation, terminology, and removal of 'the European' before 'Parliament'.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgetary Control
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Csaba Molnár (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Kinga Kollár (EPP), Tamás Deutsch (Patriots), Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR), Michal Wiezik (Renew), Terry Reintke (Greens), Younous Omarjee (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Transport and Tourism· rapporteurGheorghe Falcă (EPP)
- Industry, Research and Energy
- Public Health
- Regional Development
- Environment, Climate and Food Safety
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 29 Apr 2026
AI summary:Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Directors of twelve EU Joint Undertakings for the 2024 financial year and approves the closure of their accounts.
Tabled for plenary· 23 Mar 2026
AI summary:The committee report proposes granting discharge to twelve EU Joint Undertakings for the 2024 financial year and approving closure of their accounts, with observations in a resolution.
Committee draft· 16 Dec 2025
AI summary:This draft report proposes decisions on granting discharge and closing accounts for twelve EU Joint Undertakings for the 2024 financial year, and includes a resolution with observations.
Committee opinions: Draft opinion (TRAN), Opinion (TRAN)
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
10 September 2026
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 3 steps
29 April 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 29 Apr 2026 Adopted text TA10-0137/2026Report A10-0046/2026
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
23 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
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
12 January 2026
TRAN (Transport and Tourism) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
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; TRAN (Transport and Tourism), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), SANT (Public Health), REGI (Regional Development), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2157(DEC)