What changed

MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

P10_TA(2025)0293

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025-3/2025: Adjustmentadjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

(14878/2025 – C100301/2025 – 2025/0319(BUD))

Committee on Budgets

PE778.228

European Parliament resolution of 26 November 2025 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025 to the general budget for 2025: Adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates (14878/2025 – C10-0301/2025 – 2025/0319(BUD))

The European Parliament,

1. Takes note of Draft amending budget No 3/2025 as submitted by the Commission, and in particular of the overall very low impact on Member States’ GNI contributions, due to the balance of higher payment needs and additional revenue flows;

✦ Wording Adds the acronym "CAP" after "Common Agricultural Policy".

2. Welcomes the increased payment appropriations for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of EUR 2 billion, in conjunction with the reinforcements for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in this year’s Global Transfer (DEC 15/25), as a sign that programme implementation is gathering pace after a worryingly slow start in the 2021-2027 period; emphasises that the reinforcement of structural funds and CAP appropriations plays a crucial role in maintaining the continuity of agricultural support schemes, ensuring food security, and promoting sustainable rural development; notes that these measures are particularly important to strengthen the resilience of the agricultural sector and preserve the socio-economic balance in rural areas; recalls the complementarity of these increases with the adjustments to payment appropriation in the Global Transfer (DEC 15/2025);

3. Continues to urge the accelerated implementation of measures under the ERDF, the ESF+ and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy (BMVI); welcomes the faster than expected uptake of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP); expects the more than EUR 3 billion in additional payments from STEP to be used swiftly and effectively for the specific objectives under the respective basic acts;

9. In this context, highlights and reiterates its strong support for the newly established Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) in the revised anti-money laundering framework at Union level; remains deeply concerned by the continued delays in the set-up phase, in particular in relation to recruitment and calls for an acceleration of the relevant hiring processes;

✦ Wording Rephrases "next MFF period" to "period of the next multiannual financial framework".

10. Welcomes the incorporation in the budget of additional revenue stemming from definitive fines and penalty payments worth EUR 1 185,1 million; considers these amounts to be genuine Union revenue sources which decrease the GNI-based contributions of the Member States; in this context, recalls that the Commission has proposed modifications for the period of the next MFFmultiannual periodfinancial framework in order to ensure that such windfall revenue can lead to additional expenditure appropriations;

11. Takes note of the proposal to budget EUR 1 300 million of the estimated ‘surplus of Traditional Own Resources’; expresses doubts about the merit of repeated updates of the revenue stemming from customs duties in the course of the budget year, in particular outside the annual dedicated amending budget to update and regularise the revenue sides;