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Discharge 2023: EU general budget - Court of Auditors

TA-10-2025-0081 · P10_TA(2025)0081 · PE764.995

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Parliament grants discharge to the Court of Auditors for the 2023 budget and adopts a resolution with observations on its management, performance, ethics, and cooperation. The resolution notes the Court's budget, audit findings, staffing issues, and calls for improved transparency, gender balance, and access to EU data systems. It urges the Commission to grant full access to FENIX, calls for an audit mandate for EIB own funds, and requests cooperation with EPPO and OLAF.

Key points

  1. Grants discharge to the Secretary-General of the Court of Auditors for implementing its 2023 budget.
  2. Notes the Court's budget of about EUR 0.2 billion, representing 1.5% of EU administrative spending, and that 21 of 70 sampled transactions contained errors, but the error level was below materiality.
  3. Calls on the Court to review travel and meeting allowances for cost-effectiveness and sustainability, including more hybrid meetings.
  4. Urges the Commission to grant the Court full and immediate access to all FENIX modules, noting delays of up to 2.5 months in practice.
  5. Calls on the Court to expand audits to EIB operations financed with own funds and urges the Commission and Member States to grant the legal mandate.
  6. Regrets the decline in women in senior management to 30% and calls for continued efforts for gender balance.
  7. Calls on the Court to publish financial interests, gifts, and hospitality declarations of Members and senior staff in a public online database.
  8. Requests the Court to fully cooperate with EPPO, including lifting immunity when appropriate, and to report on reasons for refusal.
  9. Calls on the Court to join the EU Transparency Register, reconsidering its position.
  10. Urges the Court to develop a cybersecurity audit framework for EU institutions and agencies.
  11. Calls for formalizing an annual interinstitutional dialogue on budgetary control and for the Commission to adopt the Court's error-rate methodology.
  12. Calls for a structured fraud-detection collaboration mechanism with OLAF and EPPO, including real-time data sharing.

Who is affected

  • Court of Auditors: must implement transparency measures, improve gender balance, and cooperate with EPPO and OLAF.
  • Commission: must grant full access to FENIX and adopt the Court's error-rate methodology.
  • European Investment Bank: may face expanded audits if mandate is granted.
  • Member States: urged to nominate more women to the Court and grant audit mandate for EIB.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 175,059,922: Court's 2023 budget, up 7.97% from 2022.
  • 97.92% commitment implementation rate; 94.45% payment rate.
  • 21 of 70 transactions contained errors; 5 quantified.
  • 30% women in senior management, down from 36.4% in 2022.
  • 10 women out of 27 Court members; 12 Member States never nominated a woman.
  • 7 cases of burnout reported in 2023.
  • EUR 6,445,635.82 committed for K2 building from a total budget of EUR 6,902,185.54.
  • 12% reduction in electricity consumption in summer 2023, saving EUR 26,976.

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