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Discharge 2023: EU general budget - European Data Protection Supervisor

TA-10-2025-0085 · P10_TA(2025)0085 · PE764.990

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Parliament grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge for the 2023 budget and adopts a resolution with observations on budget management, HR, ethics, digitalisation, and interinstitutional cooperation. The resolution notes budget implementation rates, concerns about mission costs and legal actions, and calls for improvements in transparency, gender balance, and environmental practices.

Key points

  1. Grants discharge to the EDPS for the 2023 financial year.
  2. Notes the EDPS budget was EUR 22 711 559 in 2023, up 12.06% from 2022, with a commitment implementation rate of 96% and payment rate of 84%.
  3. Calls on the EDPS to avoid legal actions that are manifestly inadmissible and to cooperate with institutions to prevent resource mismanagement.
  4. Expresses concern about increased mission costs and reduced transparency; calls for reinstating public reporting and assessing mission resource use.
  5. Notes challenges from workload and new tasks; calls on the Commission and budgetary authority to consider these in the annual budgetary procedure.
  6. Urges the EDPS to prioritise handling of personal data of minors under 15, especially in Europol systems.
  7. Regrets underrepresentation of women in senior management and calls for a gender parity roadmap.
  8. Calls on the EDPS to provide yearly burnout case numbers and notes no harassment cases were reported in 2023.
  9. Urges the EDPS to join the Transparency Register and disclose recusals due to conflicts of interest.
  10. Calls for annual public reporting on detected cyber threats and response measures.
  11. Urges the EDPS to adopt the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) to monitor and improve its environmental footprint.
  12. Calls for closer cooperation with the Court of Auditors, OLAF, and EPPO on fraud detection and joint audits on AI-based fraud risks.

Who is affected

  • The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and its staff, who must implement the resolution's calls for transparency, gender balance, and environmental measures.
  • Union institutions and agencies, which are urged to cooperate with the EDPS and may be subject to joint audits on AI-based fraud risks.
  • Minors under 15 whose data may be processed in Europol systems, who require enhanced safeguards.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 22 711 559: final adopted budget for the EDPS in 2023, an increase of 12.06% from 2022.
  • 96%: budget implementation rate for commitment appropriations in 2023; 84%: payment appropriations execution rate.
  • EUR 2 517 942.67: carry-overs from 2023 to 2024, or 11.08% of the total budget.
  • 19 days: average time to pay in 2023, down from 25 days in 2022; 97.50% of payments processed on time.
  • EUR 284 580: EDPS staff mission costs in 2023, up from EUR 176 903 in 2022.
  • 420 complaints received in 2023, 73 admissible and 347 inadmissible.
  • 129 members of staff at end of 2023, compared to 127 in 2022.
  • EUR 468 000: budget for public communication in 2023, an increase of 54% from 2022.

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