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DRAFT BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT (COM(2025)0541 – C102025/0541 – 2025/0541(COD))

On the proposal for a Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Union support for the Schengen area, for European integrated border management and for the common policy on visas for the period from 2028 to 2034

BUDG-PA-786987

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Anouk Van Brug

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The Committee on Budgets gives its budgetary assessment of the proposed regulation on Union support for the Schengen area, European integrated border management and the common policy on visas for 2028 to 2034. It insists the programme envelope be increased from EUR 15 396 750 000 in current prices, and that sufficient human resources be available throughout the next multiannual financial framework. It asks for at least two dedicated budget lines, indicative sub-envelopes, clear criteria for resource allocation, and consistent anti-fraud requirements and audit frameworks. It also calls for flexibility between home affairs objectives, respect for the budgetary authority's prerogatives, and transparent, scrutinised use of external assigned revenue.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes a budgetary assessment of the proposal, insisting on a higher programme envelope, sufficient human resources, at least two dedicated budget lines, indicative sub-envelopes, clear allocation criteria, and robust anti-fraud and audit frameworks.

Key points

  1. The proposal sets an indicative financial envelope of around EUR 15.4 billion in current prices for 2028-2034, compared with around EUR 7 billion in 2021-2027.
  2. The proposed NRP Regulation provides only two budget lines merging the Home Affairs Regulations, unlike the multiple lines of the Border Management and Visa Instrument in 2021-2027.
  3. The EU Facility sets an indicative amount of EUR 25.2 billion for measures relating to home affairs objectives.
  4. The committee insists the programme envelope be increased from EUR 15 396 750 000 in current prices to fulfil its objectives.
  5. It considers sufficient human resources must be available from the outset and throughout the next MFF programming period for effective implementation.
  6. It considers flexibility in allocating funding between home affairs objectives necessary, noting the effective level for border management, Schengen and visas cannot be determined in advance.
  7. It is concerned at the absence of clear, objective criteria for what the Commission considers an adequate level of resources for migration, border management and internal security, as highlighted by the European Court of Auditors.
  8. It deplores the lack of a detailed indicative budgetary nomenclature in the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement and recommends considering indicative sub-envelopes in the basic act.
  9. It calls for at least two dedicated budget lines, one for operational expenditure under the NRPPs and one under the EU Facility, to maintain budgetary oversight.
  10. It notes additional funding through the EU Facility will be set in the annual budgetary procedure and insists the budgetary authority's prerogatives be fully respected.
  11. It welcomes increased coherence between migration, asylum, return and external policies, and stresses synergies with other Union policies must avoid duplication without blurring distinct objectives.
  12. It stresses external assigned revenue must be clearly circumscribed, transparent and subject to parliamentary scrutiny, and calls for consistent anti-fraud requirements and robust control and audit frameworks.

Who is affected

  • Member states, which would face harmonised requirements on preventing, detecting, reporting and correcting fraud.
  • The Commission, which would need to set clear criteria for adequate resource levels and provide a detailed budgetary nomenclature.
  • The budgetary authority, whose oversight and prerogatives the committee wants safeguarded in the annual budgetary procedure.
  • Third countries making financial contributions, whose external assigned revenue would be subject to transparency and scrutiny.

Figures and deadlines

  • around EUR 15.4 billion in current prices, the indicative financial envelope for 2028-2034
  • around EUR 7 billion, the 2021-2027 programming period amount
  • around EUR 8.4 billion in current prices and around EUR 6.7 billion in constant prices, the increase
  • EUR 25.2 billion, the indicative amount of the EU Facility for home affairs objectives
  • EUR 15 396 750 000 in current prices, the programme envelope the committee wants increased