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BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0548 – C100174/2025 – 2025/0223(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response, and repealing Decision No 1313/2013/EU (Union Civil Protection Mechanism)

BUDG-AD-785188

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Nicolae Ștefănuță

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The Committee on Budgets gives its budgetary assessment of the proposed regulation on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and Union support for health emergency preparedness and response (UCPM+), which repeals Decision No 1313/2013/EU. It says the programme envelope should rise from EUR 10.7 billion to EUR 12.4 billion in current prices (EUR 11 billion in 2025 prices), with capabilities available from the outset. It asks for stable multiannual funding, a distinction between civil protection and health emergency preparedness, and indicative sub-envelopes in the basic act. It wants a more detailed budgetary nomenclature, a revised Legislative Financial and Digital Statement, and an annex defining the nomenclature, to be part of the negotiating position. It seeks clearer rules on work programmes, reporting twice per seven-year period, coordination among health agencies, and anti-fraud access for EU bodies. It calls for complementarity with other programmes without double funding, circumscribed external assigned revenue, and consistency with the performance regulation and Financial Regulation conditionality.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes increasing the programme envelope to EUR 12.4 billion in current prices, adding a detailed budgetary nomenclature and indicative sub-envelopes, clarifying work programmes and agency responsibilities, and strengthening oversight of transfers, external assigned revenue and third-country participation.

Key points

  1. The Committee on Budgets carried out a budgetary assessment of the proposal under Rule 58 of the Rules of Procedure.
  2. It considers the programme envelope should be increased from EUR 10.7 billion to EUR 12.4 billion in current prices (EUR 11 billion in 2025 prices).
  3. It says sufficient capabilities, including human resources, equipment and stockpiles such as the RescEU reserve, must be available from the outset and throughout the programming period.
  4. It considers a Union-wide culture of preparedness requires stable and predictable multiannual funding, and stresses distinguishing civil protection from health emergency preparedness for financial planning and monitoring.
  5. It insists on sufficiently detailed legislation, deplores the lack of a budget breakdown and of financing not linked to costs, and recommends indicative sub-envelopes in the basic act.
  6. It deplores the lack of a detailed indicative budgetary nomenclature in the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement and recommends a more detailed nomenclature reflecting UCPM+ objectives.
  7. It recalls Article 47(2) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509, recommends an annex defining the nomenclature, and says the nomenclature and revised statement must be part of the final agreement.
  8. It recalls that spending priorities and financial allocations must be determined in the basic act, and suggests separate minimum allocations for health emergency response and civil protection activities.
  9. It highlights sound financial management, calls for clearly defined competencies for deployment through the Emergency Response Coordination Centre, and recommends reporting twice per seven-year period instead of every five years.
  10. It calls on the Commission to clarify the responsibilities of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Medicines Agency.
  11. It underlines the need for full access for the Commission, the European Anti-Fraud Office, the European Public Prosecutor's Office and the European Court of Auditors regarding third-country participation.
  12. It says Article 12 needs clarification on whether work programmes are annual or multiannual and whether separate ones exist for UCPM and health; it also addresses complementarity, external assigned revenue, the performance regulation and Financial Regulation conditionality.

Who is affected

  • The Commission, which would gain latitude to shift spending priorities during implementation under the proposed financing rules.
  • The budgetary authority, whose oversight and control over transfers, reallocations and combined resources would be limited by the aggregated architecture.
  • The Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety and the Committee on Public Health, which are asked to amend the proposal to include an annex on nomenclature.
  • Third countries participating in the programme, for which the Commission, OLAF, the EPPO and the Court of Auditors must have full access rights.
  • Member States and the Commission, which must ensure compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and EU values in budget implementation.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 10.7 billion, the current programme envelope from which the Committee proposes an increase.
  • EUR 12.4 billion in current prices, the proposed increased programme envelope.
  • EUR 11 billion in 2025 prices, the proposed increased programme envelope.
  • Five years, the current reporting frequency that the Committee says should be aligned with the programming period.
  • Twice per seven-year period, the recommended reporting structure.