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DRAFT REPORT (00000/2025 – C100000/2025 – 2025/0206(BUD))

On the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2025 of the European Union for the financial year 2025 - Update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure

BUDG-PR-776838

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Victor Negrescu

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This draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 2/2025, which updates revenue and adjusts expenditure. Parliament approves the Council position, noting changes in own resources and payment needs. It highlights increased GNI contributions, rebates for five member states, and welcomes reinforcements for rural development and new own resources proposals.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgets proposes to approve the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2025.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2025.
  2. Notes that decreased own resources and additional payment needs increase GNI contributions by EUR 4.3 billion, raising the uniform GNI call rate from 0.527% to 0.547%.
  3. Underlines that GNI lump-sum reductions for five member states amount to around EUR 9.2 billion gross, stressing that inflation-linked rebates increase burden on other states.
  4. Welcomes Commission's efforts for new own resources, stresses their necessity, and recalls that fines and penalties should be supplementary revenue, not reduce GNI contributions.
  5. Reiterates that the future Flexibility Instrument should be financed by additional sources including annual surplus, fines, and reflows.
  6. Welcomes upward adjustments to payment appropriations for the Rural Development Fund, indicating accelerating implementation.
  7. Questions why CBAM simplification entails an increase of EUR 8 million rather than a reduction.
  8. Questions compensation of additional needs for customs and CBAM by decreasing allocations under the Customs Control Equipment Instrument, regretting redeployments.
  9. Welcomes modifications in the establishment plan for the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority to carry out tasks timely and efficiently.
  10. Welcomes Bulgaria's progress towards the Euro and supports additional means for communication, mobilising the Flexibility Instrument.

Who is affected

  • Member states contributing GNI-based own resources, especially five beneficiary member states receiving rebates.
  • European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) receives increased payments.
  • EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority benefits from establishment plan modifications.
  • Bulgaria receives support for Euro changeover communication.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 4.3 billion increase in GNI contributions.
  • Uniform GNI call rate from 0.527% to 0.547%.
  • EUR 9.2 billion gross GNI lump-sum reductions for five member states.
  • EUR 3.5 billion reinforcement in payments for EAFRD.
  • EUR 8 million increase for CBAM simplification.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.