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BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0590 – C100198/2025 – 2025/0590(COD)) 2026-06-25

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Single Market and Customs Programme for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/444, (EU) 2021/690, (EU) 2021/785, (EU) 2021/847 and (EU) 2021/1077

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Danuše Nerudová

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The Committee on Budgets gives its budgetary assessment of the proposed Single Market and Customs Programme for 2028-2034, which merges parts of five existing programmes into one envelope. It asks Parliament's internal market committee to raise the envelope from EUR 6.2 billion to EUR 6.9 billion and to add indicative sub-envelopes and a detailed budgetary nomenclature. It wants safeguards for mandatory functions such as customs and taxation IT systems, the Anti-Fraud Information System, the Irregularity Management System and European statistics. It calls for resources for customs and market surveillance authorities to handle e-commerce volumes, and for rules on external assigned revenue, procurement and performance indicators. It asks that the programme support SMEs, a level playing field, balanced enforcement capacity across Member States and the completion of projects started under earlier Union instruments.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets recommends that the internal market committee amend the proposal to raise the envelope, add indicative sub-envelopes and a detailed budgetary nomenclature, protect mandatory programme functions, and tighten rules on external assigned revenue and governance.

Key points

  1. The proposal merges parts of five existing programmes into a single envelope covering the single market, customs, taxation and anti-fraud.
  2. The committee wants the envelope raised from EUR 6.2 billion (EUR 5.5 billion in 2025 prices) to EUR 6.9 billion (EUR 6.1 billion in 2025 prices).
  3. It says human, technical and IT resources must be available from the outset and throughout 2028-2034, including data analytics and artificial intelligence-based risk assessment and interoperable national databases.
  4. It asks for resources for customs authorities facing e-commerce workloads, and notes the new European Customs Authority Agency will support national customs authorities.
  5. It deplores the lack of a budget breakdown and recommends indicative sub-envelopes for core functions and criteria for carry-overs, external assigned revenue and cumulative funding under Articles 4 to 6.
  6. It says flexibility must not jeopardise mandatory functions: customs IT systems, taxation IT systems, the Anti-Fraud Information System, the Irregularity Management System and European statistics.
  7. It asks the internal market committee to add an annex defining the budgetary nomenclature, with reference amounts for specific objectives, in line with Article 47(2) of the Financial Regulation.
  8. It wants a more detailed nomenclature than the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement provides, to strengthen parliamentary oversight of transfers and reallocations.
  9. It says substantive policy choices must be set in the basic act, with non-essential elements adopted through delegated acts, and that the steering mechanism cannot replace Parliament's powers.
  10. It calls for governance, prioritisation, monitoring and standardised digital tools, and says SMCP should keep its focus on the single market and not be driven by broader competitiveness objectives.
  11. It wants external assigned revenue clearly circumscribed and scrutinised, with the Commission publishing an annual overview of expected revenue, and prior budgetary authority agreement for any broadening of scope.
  12. It calls for support for SMEs through simplified procedures and digital tools, for best price-quality ratio in procurement, for strand-specific performance indicators, and for balanced enforcement capacity across Member States.

Who is affected

  • The Commission, which would gain spending discretion the committee finds incompatible with sound financial management.
  • Customs and market surveillance authorities, which need digital tools, risk profiling and resources for e-commerce volumes.
  • EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises, which face unfair competition from non-compliant low-cost imports and cross-border compliance costs.
  • The budgetary authority, whose oversight the committee says the aggregated architecture would limit.
  • Member States, which must be able to enforce Union law with comparable protection across the Union.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 6.2 billion (EUR 5.5 billion in 2025 prices): the current programme envelope the committee wants increased.
  • EUR 6.9 billion (EUR 6.1 billion in 2025 prices): the proposed increased envelope.
  • July 2026: date from which the Union handling fee per parcel under the EU Customs Reform applies.
  • 20.6 %: share of single market procedures fully available online for cross-border users.
  • 15 % of EU GDP: public procurement's share of the economy.
  • 2028-2034: the programme period.

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