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DRAFT 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

BUDG-PA-787049

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, prepared for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. It says the programme envelope should be increased from EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices (EUR 6.1 billion in constant prices) to a figure from the Interim report. It insists on stable, predictable and dedicated funding, and warns that flexibility between Home Affairs objectives must not reduce ex ante predictability for internal security. It asks that all substantive policy choices be set in the basic act, that Parliament and Council be on equal footing in approving national programmes, and that at least two dedicated budget lines be created.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets concludes that the programme envelope should be increased, that funding must be stable and predictable, that substantive policy choices belong in the basic act, and that at least two dedicated budget lines are needed.

Key points

  1. The proposal aims to ensure a high level of security in the Union by preventing and combating serious and organised crime, intensifying operational law enforcement cooperation and facilitating information exchange.
  2. It introduces a new objective of enhancing the resilience of critical entities against hostile acts and managing security-related incidents, risks and crises.
  3. Under the proposed NRP Regulation, the financial envelope for the three Home Affairs Regulations is a ring-fenced minimum, and member states may reallocate part of the indicative amounts if all objectives are addressed proportionately.
  4. The proposed NRP Regulation provides for only two budget lines merging the three Home Affairs Regulations, one for operational expenditure under the NRPPs and one under the EU Facility, compared with multiple budget lines in 2021-2027.
  5. The Committee considers the programme envelope should be increased from EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices (EUR 6.1 billion in constant prices) to a figure from the Interim report.
  6. It insists on stable, predictable and dedicated funding, and says flexibility between Home Affairs objectives must not reduce ex ante predictability of the effective funding level for internal security.
  7. It believes all substantive policy choices, such as objectives, spending priorities, financial allocations, funding rates, eligibility, selection and award criteria, conditions, definitions and calculation methods, must be determined in the basic act, with supplementing elements adopted only through delegated acts.
  8. It insists that Parliament and Council be placed on equal footing throughout the procedure for approving national programmes.
  9. It raises concerns about the absence of clear criteria for what the Commission would consider an adequate or sufficient level of resources for migration, border management and internal security, as highlighted by the European Court of Auditors in Opinion 09/2026.
  10. It deplores the lack of a sufficiently detailed indicative budgetary nomenclature for internal security in the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement, and recommends fixing indicative sub-envelopes in the basic act.
  11. It calls for at least two dedicated budget lines for Union support for internal security in the Legislative Financial and Digital Statement, one for operational expenditure under the NRPPs and one under the EU Facility, to ensure oversight and minimise overlaps.
  12. It recalls that additional funding through the EU Facility will be established in the annual budgetary procedure, respecting the prerogatives of the budgetary authority, and calls on the lead committee to coordinate its amendments with those adopted to the NRP Regulation.

Who is affected

  • Member states, which may reallocate part of the indicative amounts among the three Home Affairs Regulations if all objectives are addressed proportionately.
  • The Commission, which is asked to provide clear criteria on adequate resource levels and a detailed budgetary nomenclature.
  • The budgetary authority, whose ability to steer policy priorities in the annual budgetary procedure could be hampered by the lack of a detailed nomenclature.
  • The lead committee, which is called on to coordinate its amendments with those adopted to the NRP Regulation.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 6 843 331 500 in current prices, the programme envelope the Committee says should be increased.
  • EUR 6.1 billion in constant prices, the programme envelope the Committee says should be increased.
  • 2028 to 2034, the period of the proposed regulation.
  • 2021-2027 programming period, when internal security had multiple budget lines.