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BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0542 – C100178/2025 – 2025/0542(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Union support for internal security for the period 2028 to 2034

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Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Andrzej Halicki

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The Committee on Budgets gives its budgetary assessment of the proposed regulation on Union support for internal security for 2028 to 2034, which would be funded under the proposed NRP Regulation. It says the programme envelope should rise from EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices to EUR 7 607 623 000 in current prices and EUR 6 800 000 000 in 2025 prices. It asks for sub-envelopes for all specific objectives, a more detailed budgetary nomenclature set out in an annex, clear allocation criteria and parliamentary involvement in decisions on spending priorities. It calls for sufficient and predictable funding for EU agencies and bodies fighting organised crime, and for robust control and audit frameworks to protect the EU's financial interests.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes that the lead committee amend the proposal to increase the programme envelope, add sub-envelopes for all specific objectives and an annex defining the budgetary nomenclature, and ensure clear allocation criteria and parliamentary oversight.

Key points

  1. The proposal aims to ensure a high level of security in the EU, prevent and combat serious and organised crime online and offline, and boost law enforcement cooperation and information exchange.
  2. It adds a new objective of enhancing the resilience of critical entities against hostile acts and managing security-related incidents, risks and crises from conventional and hybrid threats.
  3. Funding would come from the proposed NRP Regulation, under the same framework as the two other proposed Home Affairs Regulations.
  4. The committee says the programme envelope should be increased from EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices (EUR 6.1 billion in constant prices) to EUR 7 607 623 000 in current prices and EUR 6 800 000 000 in 2025 prices.
  5. Sufficient human, technical and IT resources must be available from the outset and throughout the 2028-2034 programming period, with efficient and proportionate use of EU resources and no unnecessary red tape.
  6. The fight against organised crime, including drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings and illicit financial flows, needs adequate and predictable EU funding.
  7. Europol, Eurojust, the EU Drugs Agency, the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training, the European Anti-Fraud Office, the EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism and the European Public Prosecutor's Office should receive sufficient support under the next MFF.
  8. The committee deplores the lack of a budget breakdown and recommends that the basic act include sub-envelopes for all specific objectives.
  9. Flexibility in allocating funding between home affairs objectives is necessary but must be circumscribed to ensure ex ante predictability, and reallocations between the three Home Affairs envelopes without justification risk not being based on objective criteria.
  10. The committee raises concerns about the absence of clear criteria on an adequate level of resources for migration, border management and internal security, as highlighted by the European Court of Auditors in Opinion 09/2026.
  11. It calls for clear allocation criteria, enhanced transparency and parliamentary involvement, and recommends a more detailed budgetary nomenclature in an annex, in line with Article 47(2) of the Financial Regulation.
  12. It insists on detailed legislation and sound governance, says the 'steering mechanism' cannot substitute for Parliament's powers, and calls for robust control and audit frameworks against fraud.

Who is affected

  • Member States, which may reallocate indicative amounts between the three Home Affairs Regulations while addressing all objectives proportionately.
  • EU agencies and bodies in home affairs, which the committee says need sufficient and predictable funding under the next MFF.
  • The Commission, which would gain latitude to shift spending priorities and allocate EU Facility funding through its work programmes.
  • The budgetary authority, whose oversight the committee says is limited by the aggregated budgetary architecture.
  • Beneficiaries, who need predictability on funding levels and clearer, more accessible EU funding.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices, the proposed programme envelope.
  • EUR 6.1 billion in constant prices, the proposed programme envelope.
  • EUR 7 607 623 000 in current prices, the envelope the committee considers necessary.
  • EUR 6 800 000 000 in 2025 prices, the envelope the committee considers necessary.
  • 2028 to 2034, the period of the Union support for internal security.
  • 2028-2034, the programming period of the MFF.
  • 2021-2027, the programming period in which the Internal Security Fund had multiple budget lines.
  • Opinion 09/2026 of the European Court of Auditors, cited on the absence of clear criteria for resource levels.