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2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text

TA-10-2024-0050 · P10_TA(2024)0050 · PE766.603

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Parliament approves the joint text on the 2025 EU budget agreed with the Council in the Conciliation Committee, confirming the joint statements annexed to the resolution. The 2025 budget sets commitment appropriations at EUR 199 438,4 million and payment appropriations at EUR 155 209,3 million. It mobilises the Flexibility Instrument for EUR 1 162,4 million, the Single Margin Instrument for EUR 721,0 million and the EURI instrument for EUR 1 141,6 million. It agrees 33 pilot projects and preparatory actions worth EUR 104,5 million, extra posts and funding for several agencies and institutions, and splits the Western Balkans Reform and Growth Facility line into six country lines. It places EUR 3 billion in payments linked to the RESTORE proposals in reserve until the legal base is adopted, and sets out joint statements on payment monitoring and on releasing those payments.

Key points

  1. Parliament approves the joint text on the 2025 budget and confirms the joint statements annexed to the resolution.
  2. Commitment appropriations for 2025 are set at EUR 199 438,4 million, leaving a margin of EUR 800,5 million below the MFF ceilings.
  3. Payment appropriations are set at EUR 155 209,3 million, leaving a margin of EUR 28 302,7 million below the MFF ceiling.
  4. The Flexibility Instrument is mobilised for EUR 1 162,4 million and the Single Margin Instrument for EUR 721,0 million for heading 7.
  5. Budget lines are confirmed as proposed by the Commission in the Draft Budget as amended by Amending Letter No 1/2025, unless stated otherwise.
  6. The European Public Prosecutor's Office gets EUR 2,0 million more and 14 additional SNEs; Europol gets 15 posts and EUR 5,0 million more.
  7. A package of 33 pilot projects and preparatory actions, 22 of them new, is agreed for EUR 104,5 million in commitment appropriations.
  8. Commitment appropriations are set at EUR 21 480,1 million for heading 1, EUR 66 365,7 million for sub-heading 2a and EUR 11 614,4 million for sub-heading 2b.
  9. Commitment appropriations are set at EUR 56 731,3 million for heading 3, EUR 4 791,1 million for heading 4, EUR 2 632,6 million for heading 5 and EUR 16 308,2 million for heading 6.
  10. Heading 7 gets EUR 12 845,0 million, with extra posts and funding for the European Council, Court of Justice, EESC, Committee of the Regions, EDPS and EEAS.
  11. Payment appropriations for new pilot projects and preparatory actions are set at 25% of the corresponding commitment appropriations, or lower if Parliament proposed less.
  12. EUR 3 billion in payments for RESTORE is placed in reserve until the legal base is adopted, and the budget line for the Western Balkans Reform and Growth Facility is split into six country lines.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions and bodies, including the European Council, Court of Justice, EESC, Committee of the Regions, EDPS and EEAS, which receive extra posts and funding.
  • Decentralised agencies, notably the European Public Prosecutor's Office and Europol, which receive extra funding and posts.
  • Member states affected by natural disasters, for which EUR 3 billion in RESTORE payments is held in reserve.
  • Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia), for which the Reform and Growth Facility budget line is split per country.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 199 438,4 million: overall commitment appropriations in the 2025 budget.
  • EUR 155 209,3 million: overall payment appropriations in the 2025 budget.
  • EUR 1 162,4 million: mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument for 2025.
  • EUR 721,0 million: mobilisation of the Single Margin Instrument for heading 7.
  • EUR 104,5 million: total commitment appropriations for 33 pilot projects and preparatory actions.
  • EUR 2 283,2 million: overall needs of the EURI interest line above the financial programming for 2025.
  • EUR 3 billion: payment appropriations for RESTORE entered into reserve.
  • 25%: share of commitment appropriations set as payment appropriations for new pilot projects and preparatory actions.

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.