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2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget

TA-10-2025-0287 · P10_TA(2025)0287 · PE775.770

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Parliament's resolution assesses the Commission's methodology for tracking gender equality in the EU budget. It notes the methodology's limitations and calls for a comprehensive approach to gender budgeting, including ex ante impact assessments, a minimum share of the budget for gender equality, and better data collection.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the Commission's pilot methodology to track gender-related expenditure in the 2021-2027 MFF, which assigns scores from 0 to 2 based on a programme's contribution to gender equality.
  2. Notes that the methodology lacks a score for negative impacts and introduces a 0* category for unclear positive impacts; it should not discourage investments in strategic sectors like defence.
  3. Reports that in 2024, 3% of commitments scored 2, 17% scored 1, 65% scored 0, and 16% scored 0*, with interventions worth EUR 37.99 billion promoting gender equality.
  4. Regrets that the methodology cannot assess administrative budgets and does not capture secondary effects, negative impacts, or intersectional dimensions.
  5. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive gender budgeting methodology for the next programming period, operational from its start, with transformative potential.
  6. Urges systematic ex ante impact assessments of EU policies and fiscal measures on gender equality, and a 'gender equality safeguard mechanism' to revise proposals that undermine gender equality.
  7. Calls for a minimum share of the EU budget dedicated to gender equality as a principal objective, and for exploring a quantitative target for the next period.
  8. Calls for allocating 25% of external financing instruments to gender equality as a principal objective and establishing a dedicated fund for global gender equality.
  9. Calls on EU institutions to analyse and report on gender pay gaps and improve gender balance, especially at senior management level.
  10. Calls for applying gender budgeting to address gender disparities in traditionally single-gender sectors, with attention to women entrepreneurs and monitoring of funds.

Who is affected

  • The European Commission, which must develop new methodologies and conduct impact assessments.
  • EU institutions, which must report on gender pay gaps and improve gender balance.
  • Women and marginalised groups, who should benefit from increased funding for gender equality.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 37.99 billion in 2024 commitments promoted gender equality (scores 1 and 2).
  • 25% of EU external financing instruments should be dedicated to gender equality as a principal objective.

Legal basis: Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty on European Union; Articles 8, 10 and 19 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights