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DRAFT OPINION (2025/2156(DEC))

On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2024

LIBE-PA-778227

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs · Rapporteur: Evin Incir

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This draft opinion covers the discharge for seven EU justice and home affairs agencies for 2024, assessing their budget implementation and activities. It welcomes achievements, notes concerns such as delays and resource shortages, and calls for improvements in areas like IT systems, staffing, and fundamental rights.

Committee position. The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate these observations into its motion for a resolution.

Key points

  1. Notes Eurojust's increased activity in 2024, including handling 12,972 cases and 361 Joint Investigation Teams, and calls for adequate resources for Ukraine-related work.
  2. Calls for a coherent strategy for the European Judicial Organized Crime Network and for strengthening Eurojust's international cooperation.
  3. Expresses concern over delays in Eurojust's Case Management System and calls on the Commission to assess impacts of complex IT systems.
  4. Notes FRA's achievements despite resource constraints, calls for additional budget and staff, and highlights its role in fundamental rights protection.
  5. Welcomes FRA's work on asylum, migration, AI, and data protection, and stresses the need for adequate resources.
  6. Notes EUAA's support to Member States, including over 1 million applications for protection, and calls for appropriate funding and staffing.
  7. Urges EUAA to speed up recruitment, establish an independent ethics function, and improve transparency and oversight.
  8. Welcomes eu-LISA's achievements but regrets delays in EES and high cancellation rates, and stresses the need for adequate resources.
  9. Recognises Frontex's role in border management and search and rescue, but notes low occupancy rate and calls for full implementation of recommendations.
  10. Notes CEPOL's full budget implementation despite a cyberattack, but regrets decrease in training activities and fundamental rights training.
  11. Welcomes EUDA's new mandate and activities, but notes high cancellation of payment appropriations and calls for full implementation.
  12. Calls on Europol to implement EDPS recommendations and address security incidents, while welcoming its operational achievements.

Who is affected

  • EU agencies: Eurojust, FRA, EUAA, eu-LISA, Frontex, CEPOL, EUDA, Europol.
  • Member states and third countries hosting or cooperating with these agencies.
  • Staff and contractors of the agencies, affected by recruitment and resource calls.

Figures and deadlines

  • 12,972 cases handled by Eurojust in 2024.
  • 99.94% budget implementation and 98.35% establishment plan for Eurojust.
  • FRA produced 102 publications against a target of 50.
  • EUAA budget of EUR 172 million and 592 staff posts in 2024.
  • eu-LISA executed 100% of commitment appropriations amounting to EUR 307.39 million.
  • Frontex responded to 1,599 incidents and assisted 65,919 migrants in SAR operations.
  • CEPOL operating budget of EUR 12,589,437 in 2024.
  • EUDA operating budget of EUR 32,723,728 in 2024.