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

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

A-10-2025-0116

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Victor Negrescu

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget. It calls for sustainable revenue, new own resources, and a flexible post-2027 budget, and urges the Council to adopt own resources proposals.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes that Parliament approve the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, entering the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million.
  2. Welcomes that the surplus is driven mainly by financial revenue, default interest and fines, while expenditure surplus is modest.
  3. Regrets that the surplus reduces GNI-based contributions and stresses the need for budget flexibility for unforeseen events.
  4. Calls on the Commission to design a sound architecture for the next multiannual financial framework, preserving flexibility and response capacity.
  5. Recalls that windfall gains from fines should be used as supplementary revenue, not reduce GNI contributions.
  6. Takes note of the negative income item of EUR 534 million for settlement payments and invites a definitive solution for the next MFF.
  7. Deplores lack of progress on own resources reform and urges the Council to adopt amended proposals.
  8. Calls for additional innovative own resources to cover higher spending needs and new challenges.

Who is affected

  • Member States: their GNI-based contributions to the 2025 budget are reduced by the surplus amount.
  • The Commission: asked to design the next MFF architecture and propose new own resources.
  • The Council: urged to adopt own resources proposals.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1 345 million: surplus of financial year 2024 entered in the 2025 budget.
  • EUR 1 072 million: positive outturn on revenue.
  • EUR 272.5 million: under-spend on expenditure.
  • EUR 1 211 million: financial revenue, default interest and fines.
  • EUR 273 million: under-implementation in payments.
  • EUR 534 million: negative income item under Article 425.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.