What changed

26. Calls on the committees to strive for better gender balance, including in the composition of leadership positions; calls on the President and the Bureau to ensure horizontal representation and gender balance throughout all plenary proceedings, across committees and delegations; calls on groups to take gender into consideration, and enforce gender quotas, for the appointment of coordinators, rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and the distribution of speaking time; requests that measures to tackle horizontal inequalities be put in place to ensure gender balance in different committees; encourages the inclusion of more men in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, including those actively supporting gender equality as allies, to foster shared responsibility and take up the mantle of promoting equality in practice for women and girls and to put an end to the gendered concentration of portfolios;

39.38. Welcomes the progress made on gender mainstreaming and budgeting and the adoption of the 2025 Gender Action Plan; calls for this action plan to be made public and swiftly implemented via its gender action plan roadmap and thoroughly assessed with regular reports monitoring the progress made; urges consistent gender budgeting in Parliament’s budget and the incorporation of a gender mainstreaming guide; welcomes the work of the Gender Mainstreaming Network in Parliament; further calls for strengthened gender mainstreaming across parliamentary committees;

44. Calls for the continuation of interinstitutional cooperation and dialogue on integrity and transparency, within the Union institutions;

43. Calls for the continuation of interinstitutional cooperation and dialogue on integrity and transparency, among the Union institutions; recalls that Parliament remains bound by the Agreement establishing an interinstitutional body for ethical standards for members of institutions and advisory bodies referred to in Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union; recalls that the Parliament is therefore required to comply with its provisions without any further delay;

68. Recalls that APAs cannot participate in Parliament’s internal competitions; invites the Bureau to explore the possibility of allowing APAs, under yet to be determined conditions, to participate in internal competitions in a similar way toParliament’s staff; stresses that stronger involvement of APAs in the internal structures of Parliament could lead to more inclusive, diverse and geographically balanced workforce; highlights the importance of knowledge retention and transfer within Parliament in relation to the internal working methods;

67. Stresses that health and safety at work, including psychosocial risks (stress, burnout, harassment), is a priority; calls on the Bureau to formally recognise psychosocial risks as occupational risks and to adopt a Parliament-wide prevention plan with measurable targets; calls for the introduction of risk assessments covering remote working, missions and tight deadlines, as well as confidential reporting channels, training for managers and regular social dialogue; insists on the enforcement of the right to disconnect;

68. Recalls that APAs cannot participate in Parliament’s internal competitions; invites the Bureau to explore the possibility of allowing APAs, under yet to be determined conditions, to participate in internal competitions in a similar way to Parliament’s staff; stresses that stronger involvement of APAs in the internal structures of Parliament could lead to more inclusive, diverse and geographically balanced workforce; highlights the importance of knowledge retention and transfer within Parliament in relation to the internal working methods;

105. Notes that the current Implementing Measures for the Statute for Members does not lay down transparency requirements for financial management of the GEA; notes that, at its meeting on 17 October 2022, the Bureau adopted this decision without establishing any oversight framework;decision;

106. Recalls that the European Ombudsman, in her recommendation of 29 April 2019 in case 1651/2018/THH, found that Parliament’s refusal to grant public access to documents related to the revision of the list of expenses covered by the GEA constituted maladministration, recommending access be granted to the Parliament Bureau’s ad hoc Working Group proposal; regrets that Parliament rejected this recommendation and urges reconsideration;

118.117. Notes that, in 2024, six reports of whistleblower cases were received under the Internal Rules Implementing Article 22c of the Staff Regulations, five through official channels and one from another Union institution; notes that one case was referred to the EPPO, two led to administrative inquiries, and one was sent to the Consultative Committee on the Code of Conduct of Members, with the external report also triggering an inquiry; expresses concern that in 2024 the Court of Justice ruled in Case T-793/22 that Parliament had not taken all the measures necessary to ensure that a whistleblower had balanced and effective protection against any form of retaliation; notes that the Court also found that Parliament did not adequately protect the whistleblower’s confidentiality; urges Parliament to bring its internal rules fully in line with Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

121. Recalls that the rules prohibit Members from engaging in paid lobbying activities directly linked to the Union decision-making process; underlines that holding remunerated positions in entities within the scope of the Transparency Register, while simultaneously exercising parliamentary functions in the same policy area or engaging in related contacts with the Commission or Council, is incompatible with these rules; calls for such situations to be properly examined and, where breaches are established, for proportionate sanctions to be applied;