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DRAFT BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0598 – C10-0262/2025 – 2025/0265(CNS)) 2026-03-02

On the proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulations (Euratom) 2021/100 and (Euratom) 2021/948

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Rasmus Andresen

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The Committee on Budgets gives its budgetary assessment of the proposed Council Regulation setting up the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation and Decommissioning (INSCD) for 2028-2034, which merges international nuclear safety cooperation with decommissioning and radioactive waste management. It says the programme envelope should be raised from EUR 966 000 000 to a figure from the interim report, and that enough staff must be available from the start and throughout the next multiannual financial framework (MFF). It asks for sound legislation and governance, clear and monitored treatment of any budgetary guarantee and borrowing and lending, and full respect for the powers of the co-legislators and the budgetary authority. It wants complementarity with other programmes such as Global Europe to keep spending traceable, external assigned revenue to be transparent and scrutinised, and any change to the programme reflected in the performance regulation's monitoring provisions. It also tables Amendment 1 to Article 3(1), replacing the indicative financial envelope with a reference amount of EUR [number from the interim report, in current and 2025 prices].

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets finds that the programme envelope should be increased from EUR 966 000 000 to a figure from the interim report, that sufficient staff and sound legislation are needed, and that budgetary guarantee, borrowing and lending, complementarity, external assigned revenue and monitoring must respect the budgetary authority. It tables Amendment 1 to Article 3(1) replacing the indicative financial envelope with a reference amount.

Key points

  1. The INSCD would contribute to nuclear safety, radiation protection, safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste, decommissioning and safeguards of nuclear materials, merging international cooperation and decommissioning activities in one programme.
  2. Nuclear safety is a public good, and past programmes have shown the added value of collecting and sharing knowledge on nuclear safety and decommissioning.
  3. The programme envelope should be increased from EUR 966 000 000 to a figure from the interim report, in current and 2025 prices, to meet its objectives.
  4. Sufficient human resources must be available from the outset and throughout the next MFF programming period for effective implementation of INSCD.
  5. Sufficiently detailed and sound legislation with an appropriate level of governance is a condition for proper budgetary decision-making and adequate parliamentary oversight.
  6. The budgetary implications of borrowing and lending under a budgetary guarantee must be clearly identified, transparently presented and monitored, with their impact on MFF headroom assessed, and decisions must respect the co-legislators and the budgetary authority.
  7. Complementarity between INSCD and other programmes such as Global Europe must not harm traceability of expenditure or the budgetary authority's prerogatives; INSCD's contribution to jointly financed operations must be identifiable at all stages, with the budgetary authority keeping full control through detailed budgetary nomenclature.
  8. External assigned revenue under INSCD must be clearly circumscribed, fully transparent and subject to effective parliamentary scrutiny; any amendment to such provisions by the lead committee should be coordinated with the Committee on Budgets and other committees.
  9. Any change to the programme's architecture, objectives and eligible actions must be reflected in the monitoring provisions under Annex I of the proposed performance regulation, as part of amending and negotiating that regulation.
  10. Amendment 1 to Article 3(1) would replace the indicative financial envelope with a reference amount of EUR [number from the interim report, in current and 2025 prices] for the period from 1 January 2028 to 31 December 2034.

Who is affected

  • The Commission: its proposal would be amended on the programme's financial amount.
  • The Council: as the body adopting the regulation, it would receive the committee's budgetary assessment and amendment.
  • The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: the lead committee receiving this opinion.
  • Participating third countries and other donors: their financial contributions would be treated as external assigned revenue under the programme.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 966 000 000 — the proposed programme envelope the committee wants increased.
  • 1 January 2028 to 31 December 2034 — the implementation period of the Instrument.

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