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Discharge 2024: EU general budget - Court of Auditors

TA-10-2026-0129 · P10_TA(2026)0129 · PE778.062

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Parliament grants discharge to the Court of Auditors for the 2024 budget and adopts observations in a resolution covering budget management, internal performance, human resources, ethics, digitalisation, buildings, sustainability, interinstitutional cooperation and communication.

Key points

  1. Notes the Court's budget of about EUR 0.2 billion, with 89.50% for staff and members, and implementation rates of 97.30% for commitments and 94.81% for payments.
  2. Calls on the Commission to grant the Court full, systematic and real-time access to all relevant databases, including ARACHNE and FENIX, noting delays in FENIX access.
  3. Regrets gender imbalance among Court members and staff, urging Member States to consider gender balance in nominations and the Court to improve gender balance in management.
  4. Calls on the Court to analyse the increase in burnout cases (13 in 2024) and to continue efforts to prevent burnout and improve wellbeing.
  5. Urges the Court to clarify criteria for decisions on EPPO requests and to ensure immunity is not invoked to hinder judicial proceedings.
  6. Reiterates calls for the Court to join the Transparency Register and to adopt an anti-fraud strategy covering all operations.
  7. Supports the Court's request to convert 29 temporary agents hired for RRF audits into permanent posts, given resource challenges.
  8. Calls for a mandate for the Court to audit operations financed with the EIB's own funds.
  9. Encourages the Court to prepare a special report on Union funding to NGOs in the Gaza context and Palestinian textbook development.

Who is affected

  • The Court of Auditors: must implement revised audit approach for Joint Undertakings, improve gender balance, and address burnout and recruitment challenges.
  • The Commission: must grant the Court full access to databases and adopt the Court's error-rate methodology.
  • Member States: urged to nominate more women to the Court and consider gender balance.
  • The European Investment Bank: subject to calls for an audit mandate for its own-fund operations.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 185 655 890: Court's 2024 budget, up 6.05% from 2023.
  • 97.30% commitment implementation rate and 94.81% payment rate in 2024.
  • 13 burnout cases in 2024, up from 7 in 2023.
  • 9 108 tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2024, down 15% from 2014 but up 1.60% from 2023.
  • 24 000 press articles in 2024, up from 22 000 in 2023.
  • 89% of survey respondents found Court reports useful; 82% said work had impact.

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