Where the law stands, Dossier 2026/0037(BUD)
Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Austria - EGF/2025/005 AT/KTM
Budget procedure (BUD): Parliament and the Council adopt the EU’s annual budget together. · First reading
A decision on EU spending: the annual budget, amending budgets or emergency funds.
Where it stands
Published as law
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 13 April 2026 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 12 February 2026
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 17 March 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 18 March 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 26 March 2026
- Published as law(done) 13 April 2026
Decided in plenary
26 March 2026 · decision 14
Jobs, social affairs & equality, Budget decision
Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/005 AT/KTM - Austria
Passed 584 for · 39 against · 13 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The decision releases EUR 1 806 624 for personalised services such as career guidance, training, and job-search help for 420 targeted beneficiaries.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: the committee report is replaced by the adopted decision text.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:Adds concerns about KTM's dividends during Covid-19 and relocations outside the Union, stressing industrial competitiveness. Emphasizes cooperation with regional businesses and prevention of closures, with support for low-educated workers. Rephrases the objective of EGF contributions to focus on labour market reintegration and skills for green and digital transition. Other changes are formal: a repeated sentence, a decimal separator, and an annexed committee letter.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Janusz Lewandowski (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Matjaž Nemec (S&D), Angéline Furet (Patriots), Bogdan Rzońca (ECR), Olivier Chastel (Renew), Nicolae Ștefănuță (Greens), Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Employment and Social Affairs· rapporteurJohan Danielsson (S&D)
- Regional Development
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 26 Mar 2026
AI summary:Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) with EUR 1 806 624 for Austria following the insolvency of KTM, which displaced 1 488 workers in Upper Austria.
Tabled for plenary· 18 Mar 2026
AI summary:Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers with EUR 1 806 624 for Austria following 1 488 displacements at KTM, supporting 420 targeted beneficiaries with personalised services.
Committee draft· 17 Feb 2026
AI summary:This draft report concerns the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) for Austria following redundancies at KTM. It approves the Commission's proposal to grant EUR 1,806,624 to support 420 displaced workers.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
13 April 2026
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 2 steps
26 March 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 26 Mar 2026 Report A10-0060/2026Adopted text TA10-0103/2026
18 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
17 March 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
5 March 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.
25 February 2026
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
17 February 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
12 February 2026
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), REGI (Regional Development) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2026/0037(BUD)