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Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024

TA-10-2025-0151 · P10_TA(2025)0151 · PE773.098

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 budget surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget. It regrets that this reduces Member States' GNI-based contributions and calls for sustainable revenue, new own resources, and a flexible post-2027 budget framework.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, entering the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget.
  2. Notes the surplus comprises positive revenue outturn of EUR 1 072 million and under-spend of EUR 272.5 million, driven mainly by financial revenue, default interest and fines.
  3. Regrets that budgeting the surplus reduces total GNI-based own resources contributions of Member States; stresses the need for budget flexibility for unforeseen events and new priorities.
  4. Calls on the Commission to design a sound architecture for the next multiannual financial framework, preserving programmes and flexibility, especially for natural disasters and health emergencies.
  5. Recalls its position that windfall gains from fines and fees should be supplementary revenue for crisis response, not decrease GNI-based contributions.
  6. Takes note of the negative income item under Article 425 of EUR 534 million for settlement agreement costs; recalls this approach ends on 31 December 2027 and invites a definitive solution.
  7. Deplores lack of progress in Council on own resources reform; urges adoption of amended Commission proposals to diversify and consolidate own resources.
  8. Calls on the Commission to identify additional innovative new own resources beyond those in the Interinstitutional Agreement, essential for repaying NextGenerationEU and covering higher spending needs.

Who is affected

  • Member States: their GNI-based contributions to the 2025 budget are reduced by the surplus amount.
  • The Commission: asked to design the next multiannual financial framework and propose new own resources.
  • The Council: urged to adopt own resources reform proposals.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1 345 million: the 2024 surplus entered into the 2025 budget.
  • EUR 1 072 million: positive outturn on revenue.
  • EUR 272.5 million: under-spend on expenditure.
  • EUR 1 211 million: financial revenue, default interest and fines driving the surplus.
  • EUR 273 million: under-implementation in payments by all institutions.
  • EUR 534 million: negative income item under Article 425.
  • 31 December 2027: end of the negative income item approach.

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.