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MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

P10_TA(2026)0283

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2026 of the European Union for the financial year 2026 –2/2026: Updateupdate onof revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure

(11540/2026 – C100207/2026 – 2026/0144(BUD))

Committee on Budgets

PE790.007

European Parliament resolution of 15 September 2026 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2026 of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – Update on revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure (11540/2026 – C10-0207/2026 – 2026/0144(BUD))

The European Parliament,

1. Takes note of Draft amending budget No 2/2026 as submitted by the Commission;

✦ Wording Shortens the call on the Commission to monitor implementation across the budget, without changing what is asked.

2. Welcomes the increased payment appropriations for the cohesion programmes of EUR 5,4 billion, as well as the increased payment appropriations for the CAP Strategic Plans under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), of EUR 2,2 billion, showing further build-up on the strong implementation progress started in 2025; notes however that the cohesion backlog from 2025, combined with the accelerated pace of implementation, puts the 2026 budget under pressure; calls on the Commission to continue to monitor the implementation across the budget in the context of the upcoming Global Transfer exercise and to take any measure necessary to mitigate the risk of running out of payment appropriations; considers, furthermore, that increased payments in 2026 should help relieve the pressure on payments in 2027, and ensure the timely delivery of Union funds to beneficiaries, local and regional authorities and less developed regions;

✦ Wording Replaces "incursions of" with "incursions by" military drones, leaving the substance unchanged.

3. Expresses deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in the Union's eastern border regions resulting from repeated incursions ofby military drones and other hybrid threats linked to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine; calls on the Commission to closely monitor developments, urgently assess the resulting socio-economic and budgetary consequences and, where appropriate, propose the necessary budgetary measures, including through a subsequent Draft Amending Budget, to provide timely Union support to the affected regions; calls furthermore on the Commission to identify and mobilise, as a matter of urgency in 2026, the necessary funding for the establishment of European Maritime Security and Defence Hubs;

✦ Wording Rephrases the reference to the reinforcement for the European agricultural guarantee fund, without changing the amount or purpose.

4. Takes note of the Fertilisers Action Plan, which the Commission adopted on 19 May 2026, and the corresponding proposal to increase the agricultural reserve by EUR 300 million to provide rapid exceptional relief to farmers facing severe liquidity challenges; calls on the Commission to keep monitoring the global situation for potential additional market shocks affecting farmers; notes in addition the proposed reinforcement of EUR 140 million to cover the needs of the European agricultural guarantee fund (EAGF) needs and compensate for lower than expected assigned revenue to be collected in 2026 after incorporating actual clearance decisions; stresses that crisis support must not replace the need for a strong, predictable and adequately financed Common Agricultural Policy;

✦ Wording Rewords the passage on the Ukraine Support Loan, including the six-month presence, the 2024 revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework, ongoing efforts, increasing staff and new tasks, without changing what it says.

5. Takes note of the new type of financial, budgetary and legal management needed for the Ukraine Support Loan, requiring additional expertise for its implementation by the Commission, with a total of 53 establishment plan posts, of which 41 posts over and above stable staffing, in line with the Legislative, Financial and Digital Statement as annexed to the Commission’s proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the Ukraine Support Loan for 2026 and 2027; takes note of the estimated budgetary impact of EUR 3,2 million euros in heading 7 based on a six-monthssix-month presence in 2026; notes with concern that the Commission’s self-imposed stable staffing principle has proven counterproductive to meeting operational requirements; recalls that the Parliament supported reinforcing heading 7 during the 20232024 MFFrevision revision;of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) ; notes the continuousongoing efforts made by the institutions to redeploy staff and find additional efficiency gains but acknowledges the limits of this approach over the years; stresses the inevitability of reinforcingincreasing the amount of staff when necessary in order for the institutions to fulfil their mandates and in this context recalls Parliament’s position that new tasktasks should be covered by additional resources;

✦ Wording Rephrases references to the Union's unified funding approach, the 2024 revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework and the recalling of that revision, without changing the substance.

6. Takes note, in addition, of the additional need for EUR 1 million in support expenditure under sub-heading 2b for the borrowing and debt management activities related to the Ukraine Support Loan, which will be covered under the EU’sUnion’s unified funding approach; recalls that these costs are an additional burden in a context of extremely scarce resources; remindsrecalls that the Multiannual2024 Financialrevision Frameworkof (MFF)the revisionMFF created the Ukraine Support Loan Instrument for the sole purpose of financing the Ukraine Support Loan debt service costs; insists on the need for the Commission to provide reliable, timely and accurate information on borrowing costs as well as on the aggregation of liabilities to the headroom contingent on borrowing and lending operations;

✦ Wording Replaces "in regard to" with "with regard to" the Union's priorities and budgetary needs, leaving the meaning unchanged.

7. Takes note that, in the absence of margins under sub-heading 2b and under heading 7, the Commission proposes to mobilise the Flexibility Instrument for an amount of EUR 1 million and the Single Margin Instrument amount of EUR 3,2 million; recalls its deep concerned about the very limited level of availabilities in the 2026 budget inwith regard to the Union’s priorities and budgetary needs and ability to react to emergencies and unforeseen needs;

8. Takes note that negotiations on the Proposal for Green Claims Directive are at a standstill and that the Commission’s European forest monitoring proposal was withdrawn from the list of the Commission’s pending initiatives; notes that, as a consequence, all the corresponding financial resources that were planned for the implementation of the relevant tasks by the European Environment Agency can be returned to the LIFE programme, from which these appropriations were initially offset;