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Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutors Office

TA-10-2026-0135 · P10_TA(2026)0135 · PE778.067

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Parliament grants discharge to the Administrative Director of the European Public Prosecutor's Office for the 2024 budget and approves closure of its accounts, with observations in a resolution. The resolution welcomes the Court of Auditors' positive opinion, notes the EPPO's increased workload and calls for more resources, better budgeting, and stronger cooperation to protect EU funds. It urges the Commission to revise the outdated financial framework, provide adequate staffing, and address conflicts of competence and reporting gaps, especially for RRF-related fraud. It calls for improved transparency, ethics rules, and cybersecurity, and urges Hungary to join the EPPO.

Key points

  1. Grants discharge to the EPPO's Administrative Director for 2024 and approves closure of accounts.
  2. Welcomes the Court of Auditors' positive opinion on accounts and transactions.
  3. Notes the EPPO's increased workload: 6,547 crime reports and 2,666 active investigations by end 2024, with estimated damages of EUR 24.8 billion.
  4. Calls on the Commission to allocate necessary resources and revise the outdated 2017 Legislative Financial Statement.
  5. Urges the Commission to deliver the staffing assessment promised in Amending Letter 1/2022 and to base budget proposals on updated workload indicators.
  6. Calls for measures to strengthen cross-border investigations, including direct access to national databases and procedural harmonisation.
  7. Expresses concern about RRF-related fraud cases and calls for improved reporting and monitoring.
  8. Calls for a comprehensive conflicts of interest policy and a stronger revolving door policy with a cooling-off period of at least two years.
  9. Urges the Commission to reconsider its decision to discontinue IT services and to allocate resources for EPPO's IT autonomy and cybersecurity.
  10. Regrets Hungary's non-participation and urges it to join the EPPO; calls for infringement proceedings against obstructing Member States.
  11. Calls for legislative solutions to ensure recovered amounts are returned to the EU budget and for better monitoring of confiscations.

Who is affected

  • The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) and its staff, including European Delegated Prosecutors.
  • The European Commission, which is called on to provide resources and revise frameworks.
  • Member States, particularly those not participating in the EPPO (Hungary, Denmark) and those with conflicts of competence.
  • EU institutions and bodies cooperating with the EPPO, such as OLAF, Eurojust, and Europol.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 76,382,368: final budget for 2024.
  • 6,547 crime reports and 2,666 active investigations by end 2024.
  • EUR 24.8 billion estimated damages.
  • EUR 2.42 billion freezing orders obtained in 2024.
  • 98.5% budgetary implementation rate for 2024.
  • EUR 13.15 billion estimated VAT fraud damages (53% of total).
  • 205 indictments in 2024.
  • 311 active RRF-related cases by end 2024.

Legal basis: Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union