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Discharge 2024: Agencies

TA-10-2026-0136 · P10_TA(2026)0136 · PE776.806

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Parliament grants discharge to the directors of 33 EU agencies and bodies for the 2024 budget and approves closure of their accounts, with observations in a resolution. The resolution notes the Court of Auditors issued unqualified opinions for almost all agencies, but flags procurement irregularities, high carry-overs, and cybersecurity risks. It calls on agencies to improve transparency, conflict-of-interest controls, and performance indicators, and to reduce reliance on external contractors and interim staff. It urges the Commission to ensure adequate staffing and funding for agencies, and to address systemic issues in procurement and IT services.

Key points

  1. Parliament grants discharge to the directors of 33 EU agencies and bodies for implementing their 2024 budgets and approves the closure of their accounts.
  2. The resolution covers 31 decentralised agencies and two other bodies (EIT and Euratom Supply Agency), noting the Court issued unqualified opinions for almost all agencies.
  3. Calls on agencies to proactively publish key non-confidential documents, adopt minimum transparency standards, and implement conflict-of-interest controls.
  4. Urges the Commission to explore synergies, possible mergers, and periodic performance reviews of agencies, and to ensure agencies are adequately staffed to reduce outsourcing.
  5. Notes the Court found procurement weaknesses as the main source of irregular payments; calls for reinforced ex ante controls and corrective action plans for high carry-overs.
  6. Calls on agencies to improve key performance indicators, ensure gender balance, and address staff turnover and precarious employment.
  7. Highlights cybersecurity as a horizontal priority, urging accelerated implementation of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2023/2841 and regular stress-testing.
  8. Calls on specific agencies to address irregularities: eu-LISA procurement, Eurojust business continuity, ELA staffing, EIGE procurement, and others.
  9. Urges the Commission to provide adequate resources for agencies with expanded mandates, including EBA, Europol, Eurojust, and ENISA.
  10. Calls for action on medicine shortages, EMA's London premises issue, and implementation of Court recommendations on pandemic preparedness.

Who is affected

  • 33 EU agencies and bodies, including ACER, BEREC Office, CdT, Cedefop, CEPOL, EASA, EBA, ECDC, ECHA, EEA, EFCA, EFSA, EIGE, EIOPA, EIT, ELA, EMA, EUDA, EMSA, ENISA, ERA, ESA, ESMA, ETF, EUAA, eu-LISA, EU-OSHA, Eurofound, Eurojust, Europol, EUSPA, FRA, Frontex.
  • The directors of these agencies receive discharge and must implement corrective actions and report to the discharge authority.
  • The Commission must provide guidance, training, and oversight on procurement and ensure adequate staffing and funding for agencies.
  • Member States are called on to allow longer contracts for contract agents and to address rule of law deficiencies affecting agency cooperation.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 900 billion: outstanding loans borrowed by the Union could exceed this by 2027.
  • EUR 4.1 billion: total budget of 33 decentralised agencies in 2024.
  • 11,491: total staff employed by the 33 decentralised agencies in 2024.
  • EUR 2.6 million: irregular payments at ELA in 2024.
  • EUR 543 million: EMA's maximum exposure for London premises.
  • EUR 15-20 million: estimated recoveries from EIT KIC-related cases.

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