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BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0476 – C100271/2025 – 2025/0268(NLE)) 2026-06-03

On the proposal for a Council regulation establishing the nuclear decommissioning assistance programme of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/101

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Rasmus Nordqvist

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The Committee on Budgets gives its budgetary assessment of the proposed Council regulation for the Ignalina nuclear decommissioning assistance programme in Lithuania for 2028-2034, which repeals Regulation (EU) 2021/101. It agrees the programme envelope should be EUR 678 000 000 in current prices (EUR 602 720 000 in 2025 prices) and tables one amendment to Article 4(1) to fix that amount. It asks for sufficient staff and technical resources throughout the 2028-2034 period, stable and predictable financing, and clear limits and scrutiny on external assigned revenue. It wants complementarity with other programmes to keep expenditure traceable and under the budgetary authority's control, and any change to the programme reflected in the performance regulation. It recalls that the rule-of-law conditionality regime and the Charter of Fundamental Rights apply to the budget.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets agrees the programme envelope should be EUR 678 000 000 in current prices (EUR 602 720 000 in 2025 prices) and submits one amendment to Article 4(1) to set that amount, while asking for stable financing, scrutiny of external assigned revenue and controlled complementarity with other programmes.

Key points

  1. Agrees the programme envelope should be EUR 678 000 000 in current prices (EUR 602 720 000 in 2025 prices).
  2. Considers sufficient human and technical resources must be available from the outset and throughout the 2028-2034 multiannual financial framework.
  3. Stresses that decommissioning meets long-term legal and technical obligations, so stable and predictable financial programming is a condition for sound budgetary management.
  4. Takes note of suggested complementarity with the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning and the Cohesion Fund, but insists the budgetary authority keep full control over combining resources, through detailed budgetary nomenclature.
  5. Stresses that enhanced complementarity must not harm expenditure traceability, budgetary prerogatives or create disproportionate complexity for beneficiaries, and calls for clearer, more accessible and more coherent EU funding.
  6. Stresses that external assigned revenue under the programme must be clearly circumscribed, fully transparent and subject to effective parliamentary scrutiny, including contributions from non-EU countries and other donors.
  7. Says any amendment to external assigned revenue provisions by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy should be coordinated with the Committee on Budgets and other committees.
  8. Recalls the proposed performance regulation and says any change to the Ignalina programme's architecture, objectives and eligible actions must be reflected in its Annex I.
  9. Points out that sectoral legislation may supplement the performance regulation but must stay consistent with it.
  10. Recalls that under Article 6(2) and (3) of the Financial Regulation a general rule-of-law conditionality regime applies to the budget, and that member states and the Commission must ensure compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and EU values.
  11. Submits Amendment 1 to Article 4(1): the programme envelope for 1 January 2028 to 31 December 2034 is set at EUR 678 000 000 in current prices (EUR 602 720 000 in 2025 prices).

Who is affected

  • Lithuania: the programme assists it with safety challenges of decommissioning the Ignalina nuclear power plant.
  • EU member states and non-EU countries: they can share knowledge generated by the decommissioning activities.
  • The budgetary authority: it must keep full control over combining resources across instruments.
  • Non-EU countries and other donors: their additional financial contributions are covered by external assigned revenue provisions.
  • Beneficiaries: enhanced complementarity between programmes must not create disproportionate complexity for them.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 678 000 000 in current prices — the programme envelope the committee agrees on.
  • EUR 602 720 000 in 2025 prices — the same envelope expressed in 2025 prices.
  • 1 January 2028 to 31 December 2034 — the implementation period of the programme.
  • 2028-2034 — the multiannual financial framework period during which resources must be available.
  • until 2049 — the expected duration of activities conducted since the early 2000s.

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