Skip to content
Adopted text

Draft amending budget No 3/2025: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

TA-10-2025-0293 · P10_TA(2025)0293 · PE778.228

Official HTML ↗ PDF DOCX
✦ In shortFull text
✦ In short · AI summary of this text, generated 4 Sept 2026

Written by a language model from the full text only; every figure comes from the text. The paragraph links open the paragraph a statement rests on — check the text itself before relying on it.

Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025, which adjusts payment appropriations, updates revenues, and makes technical updates to the 2025 EU budget. It welcomes increased payments for the European Regional Development Fund and notes adjustments for decentralised agencies, fines, and traditional own resources.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2025, leading to the definitive adoption of Amending budget No 3/2025.
  2. Welcomes the EUR 2 billion increase in payment appropriations for the European Regional Development Fund, alongside Common Agricultural Policy reinforcements, as a sign of faster programme implementation.
  3. Urges accelerated implementation of measures under the ERDF, ESF+ and the Border Management and Visa Instrument, and expects swift use of over EUR 3 billion in additional payments from the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform.
  4. Regrets decreases in commitments and payments for the Customs Control Equipment Instrument due to delays in Member State implementation.
  5. Welcomes savings for the Technical Support Instrument from efficiency gains in procurement.
  6. Notes the slowdown in Ukraine Facility payments and encourages progress on reforms and investments, including blending agreements.
  7. Regrets that adjustments to decentralised agencies stem from delays in recruitment or policy roll-out, and calls for accelerated hiring for the Anti-Money Laundering Authority.
  8. Welcomes the inclusion of EUR 1,185.1 million in fines and penalties as Union revenue, reducing Member States' GNI contributions.
  9. Takes note of budgeting EUR 1,300 million of surplus Traditional Own Resources but doubts the merit of repeated revenue updates during the budget year.
  10. Agrees to integrate 2025 salary adjustments as a technical amendment, reducing non-differentiated appropriations by EUR 78.8 million under Heading 7.

Who is affected

  • Member States: their GNI contributions are reduced by additional revenue from fines and traditional own resources.
  • Decentralised agencies: their Union contributions are adjusted, with some appropriations returned to programme lines due to delays.
  • European Regional Development Fund and Common Agricultural Policy: receive increased payment appropriations.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 2 billion: increase in payment appropriations for the European Regional Development Fund.
  • EUR 1,185.1 million: additional revenue from fines and penalties.
  • EUR 1,300 million: surplus of Traditional Own Resources budgeted.
  • EUR 78.8 million: reduction in non-differentiated appropriations under Heading 7 for salary adjustments.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union