Where the law stands, Dossier 2026/0120(BUD)
Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Romania regarding the floods at the end of May 2025, Cyprus following the wildfires in July 2025 and Spain following the wildfires in August 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 21 July 2026 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 15 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) 21 July 2026
Decided in plenary
7 July 2026 · decision 8
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Romania, Cyprus and Spain with regard to natural disasters in 2025
Passed 642 for · 13 against · 1 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The approved spending releases financial assistance for flood damage in Romania and wildfire damage in Cyprus and Spain.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:Adds a call for Commission support for the Praid Salt Mine reconstruction and for mobilising Union funds, including ESF+ and EGF, to aid affected workers and regions.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The new version adds a recital on climate change impacts and expands paragraphs on EUSF procedures, vulnerable populations, and infrastructure resilience. It adds calls for transparency, monitoring, and coordination in fund distribution, and for accelerating aid delivery with higher advance payments. It appends a detailed explanatory section on the Commission's mobilisation proposal, including damage figures and budget availability. The other changes are formal: paragraph renumbering and minor wording adjustments.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Bogdan Rzońca (ECR)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP), Sandra Gómez López (S&D), Angéline Furet (Patriots), Olivier Chastel (Renew), Nicolae Ștefănuță (Greens), Elena Kountoura (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Regional Development
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 7 Jul 2026
AI summary:Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Romania, Cyprus and Spain after natural disasters in 2025, and calls for faster, simpler procedures and more preventive action.
Tabled for plenary· 24 Jun 2026
AI summary:The committee report approves the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Romania, Cyprus and Spain after natural disasters in 2025, and calls for swift aid delivery.
Committee draft· 1 Jun 2026
AI summary:This draft report concerns the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Romania, Cyprus and Spain after natural disasters. It approves the Commission's proposal and calls for swift assistance and preventive measures.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
21 July 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 A10-0178/2026Adopted text TA10-0244/2026
1 July 2026
1 amendment 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 4 steps
23 June 2026
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
15 June 2026
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; REGI (Regional Development) gives an opinion.
8 June 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.
1 June 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2026/0120(BUD)