Where the law stands, Dossier 2026/0090(BUD)
Draft amending budget no 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025
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 3 September 2026 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 18 June 2026
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 23 June 2026
- Tabled for plenary(done) 24 June 2026
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 7 July 2026
- Published as law(done) 3 September 2026
Decided in plenary
7 July 2026 · decision 6
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025
Passed 492 for · 101 against · 60 abstained by a large majority
AI summary:The draft amending budget enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2,095 million into the 2026 budget, reducing member states' GNI-based contributions by that amount.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in wording: a possessive pronoun is shortened in paragraph 7.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal points: capitalization of terms like "amending budget" and "Article" is adjusted.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Andrzej Halicki (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Nils Ušakovs (S&D), Tamás Deutsch (Patriots), Ruggero Razza (ECR), Stine Bosse (Renew), Nicolae Ștefănuță (Greens), João Oliveira (The Left), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 7 Jul 2026
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2026, which enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2 095 million into the 2026 budget.
Tabled for plenary· 24 Jun 2026
AI summary:Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2026, which enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2,095 million into the 2026 budget.
Committee draft· 13 May 2026
AI summary:This draft report concerns Draft Amending Budget No 1/2026, which enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2 095 million into the 2026 budget. Parliament approves the Council position, but notes concerns about reduced GNI contributions and calls for new own resources.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
3 September 2026
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 3 steps
7 July 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 7 Jul 2026 Report A10-0180/2026Adopted text TA10-0242/2026
1 July 2026
6 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
24 June 2026
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 3 steps
23 June 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
18 June 2026
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
13 May 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2026/0090(BUD)