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MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024

Committee on Budgets

(09619/2025 – C100125/2025 – 2025/0091(BUD))

PE773.098

European Parliament resolution of 9 July 2025 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024 (09619/2025 – C10-0125/2025 – 2025/0091(BUD))

– having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

– having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A10-0116/2025),

A. whereas the purpose of Draft amending budget No 1/2025 is to enter in the 2025 budget the surplus resulting from the implementation of the financial year 2024, which amounts to EUR 1 345 million;

B. whereas the main components of that surplus are a positive outturn on revenue of EUR 1 072 million and an under-spend of EUR 272,5 million;

C. whereas, on the revenue side, the primary driver for the volume of the surplus is an amount of EUR 1 211 million in financial revenue, default interest and fines; whereas the outturn of the own resources in title 1 remains very close to the budgeted amounts in 2024 budget (including Amending budgets No 1-5);

D. whereas, on the expenditure side, under-implementation in payments by all institutions, including cancellations of appropriations carried over, totalled EUR 273 million (equalling 0,02%0,02 % of authorised payment appropriations);

1. Takes note of Draft amending budget No 1/2025 as submitted by the Commission, which is to budget the 2024 surplus, for an amount of EUR 1 345 million, in accordance with Article 18(3) of the Financial Regulation;

2. Welcomes the fact that the 2024 surplus is driven primarily by an increase in the variation in Title 4 (Financial revenue, default interest and fines), while the surplus of expenditure remains very modest at EUR 273 million;

5. Recalls its long-standing position that windfall gains stemming from fines and fees, or equivalent amounts thereof, should be used as supplementary revenue for the Union budget for purposes of crisis response or unexpected needs and should not lead to a corresponding decrease in GNI-based contributions;

6. Takes note of the negative income item under the new Article 425, amounting to EUR 534 million and welcomes this method of incorporating costs for the budget stemming from payment made under settlement agreement entailing compensatory interest and default interest compensation related to the repayment of annulled or reduced competition fines in accordance with the pertinent judgements of the Court of Justice; recalls that the Parliament, when negotiating the recast of the Financial Regulation, had insisted on the application of this approach since the alternative solution would have been additional expenditure appropriations in the already overstretched Heading 7; recalls that this solution comes to an end on 31 December 2027; invites the Commission to propose a definitive solution for the next MFFmultiannual financial framework that achieves the same objective of avoiding any impact on the expenditure side of the budget;

7. Emphasises the need for sustainable revenue for the Union budget; deplores, therefore, the complete absence of progress in the Council on the reform of the own resources system in line with the spirit of the legally binding roadmap in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020; recalls its position in support of the amended Commission proposals and urges the Council to adopt those proposals as a matter of urgency in order to diversify and consolidate the own resources available to the Union budget;

8. Calls furthermore on the Commission to continue efforts to identify additional innovative and genuine new own resources and other revenue sources beyond those specified in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020; stresses that new own resources are essential not only to enable repayment of NGEUNextGenerationEU borrowing, but to ensure that the Union is equipped to cover its the higher spending needs, in particular in the context of the multiple challenges the Union is currently facing, including the new geopolitical context; considers that all new Union policies and challenges must involve new financial means and additional fresh resources;

9. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025;

11. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the other institutions and bodies concerned and the national parliaments.

ANNEX: ENTITIES OR PERSONS FROM WHOM THE RAPPORTEUR HAS RECEIVED INPUT

The rapporteur declares under his exclusive responsibility that he did not receive input from any entity or person to be mentioned in this Annex pursuant to Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure.

INFORMATION ON ADOPTION IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

Date adopted

24.6.2025

Result of final vote

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Members present for the final vote

Georgios Aftias, Rasmus Andresen, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Tomasz Buczek, Olivier Chastel, Tamás Deutsch, Angéline Furet, Jens Geier, Thomas Geisel, Jean-Marc Germain, Andrzej Halicki, Fabienne Keller, Janusz Lewandowski, Ignazio Roberto Marino, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Matjaž Nemec, Karlo Ressler, Julien Sanchez, Hélder Sousa Silva, Carla Tavares, Nils Ušakovs, Lucia Yar, Auke Zijlstra

Substitutes present for the final vote

Michalis Hadjipantela, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová

Members under Rule 216(7) present for the final vote

Laura Ballarín Cereza, José Cepeda, Ştefan Muşoiu

FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL BY THE COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

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