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Discharge 2023: EU general budget - Court of Justice of the European Union

TA-10-2025-0080 · P10_TA(2025)0080 · PE764.996

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Parliament grants discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Union for the 2023 budget and adopts observations on the Court's financial management, performance, and ethics. The resolution notes the Court's budget, implementation rate, and judicial activities, and makes recommendations on transparency, gender balance, ethics, and digitalisation.

Key points

  1. Notes the CJEU's 2023 budget of EUR 486,025,796, a 3.9% increase from 2022, with an implementation rate of 97.72%.
  2. Notes that the Court of Auditors found no specific issues concerning the CJEU, and the estimated error level was below the materiality threshold.
  3. Calls on the Commission to take enforcement actions against Member States that disregard CJEU rulings, and recommends linking compliance with EU funding under the rule of law conditionality framework.
  4. Calls on Member States to consider gender balance when nominating judges and Advocates General, and on the CJEU to publish an annual Gender and Diversity Report.
  5. Calls for mandatory ethics training, an independent ethics committee, and a recusal policy for judges to prevent conflicts of interest.
  6. Welcomes the publication of Members' declarations of interests and calls for a standard pre-appointment screening process.
  7. Calls for broadcasting all hearings of both courts online and publishing all case documents to improve transparency and access to justice.
  8. Notes increased spending on IT and cybersecurity, and stresses the need for human oversight of AI use and robust cybersecurity measures.
  9. Notes the reduction in energy consumption and carbon footprint compared to 2015, and encourages continued efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2035.
  10. Welcomes cooperation with other institutions and the European Judicial Training Network, and calls for remunerated traineeships and a judicial exchange programme.

Who is affected

  • The Court of Justice of the European Union and its staff, including judges, Advocates General, and other personnel.
  • Member States, which are called on to nominate judges with gender balance in mind and to comply with CJEU rulings.
  • Trainees at the CJEU, who receive grants, and national judges benefiting from training and exchange programmes.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 486,025,796: CJEU budget for 2023, a 3.9% increase from 2022.
  • 97.72%: overall budget implementation rate at the end of 2023.
  • EUR 638,000: mission budget for 2023, down 3.3% from 2022.
  • 821 new cases submitted to the Court of Justice in 2023; 1,271 to the General Court.
  • 16.1 months: average length of proceedings for cases closed by the Court of Justice in 2023.
  • 10,502 e-Curia accounts registered in 2023; 94% of lodgements before the General Court via e-Curia.
  • 20,198 days of sick leave in 2023, a 14.78% reduction from 2022.

Legal basis: Article 287 and Articles 314(10), 317, 318, and 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.