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Discharge 2024: Joint Undertakings

TA-10-2026-0137 · P10_TA(2026)0137 · PE778.122

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Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Directors of twelve EU Joint Undertakings for the 2024 financial year and approves the closure of their accounts. A resolution with observations sets out concerns and recommendations, including on budget execution, cash surpluses, private members' contributions, risk-based controls, and specific issues for ITER and EuroHPC.

Key points

  1. Grants discharge to the Executive Directors of the Clean Aviation, Circular Bio-based Europe, Clean Hydrogen, Europe's Rail, Cybersecurity, EuroHPC, ITER, Global Health EDCTP3, Innovative Health Initiative, Chips, SESAR 3, and Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertakings for 2024.
  2. Approves the closure of the accounts of all twelve Joint Undertakings for the 2024 financial year.
  3. Calls on Joint Undertakings to convert scientific knowledge into market-ready innovations, strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy, competitiveness, security, and sustainability, and promote cybersecurity training.
  4. Calls on the Commission and budgetary authority to ensure sufficient, stable, and long-term financing for Joint Undertakings under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028-2034).
  5. Expresses concern about low budget execution rates in several Joint Undertakings, particularly for administrative and operational payments, and calls for corrective measures and annual surplus reduction plans.
  6. Calls on Joint Undertakings to address low private members' contributions, including Eurocontrol, Global Health EDCTP3, and EuroHPC, and to reassess contribution targets where necessary.
  7. Calls for strengthening risk-based control frameworks for Horizon Europe and Digital Europe grant payments, and for addressing persistent staff-cost errors in grant declarations.
  8. Calls for enhanced anti-fraud cooperation with OLAF and EPPO, systematic publication of declarations of interest, and a cooling-off period for senior staff.
  9. Expresses concern about ITER's revised baselines, cost increases, and risks, and calls for robust risk management, cost control, and legal clarity.
  10. Calls for strict enforcement of sanctions against Russia in ITER and for minimising dependence on Russia.
  11. Calls on each Joint Undertaking to produce an individual follow-up report on actions taken to address the resolution's issues by 30 September 2026.

Who is affected

  • The twelve EU Joint Undertakings, including their Executive Directors and staff, are subject to discharge and must implement the resolution's recommendations.
  • Private members of Joint Undertakings, such as Eurocontrol and industry partners, are urged to meet contribution targets.
  • The Commission is called on to require surplus reduction plans and to reassess contribution targets for EuroHPC.
  • Beneficiaries of Joint Undertaking grants face increased ex-ante controls and financial corrections for staff-cost errors.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 17,2 billion from the Union's cash contribution and EUR 21,3 billion from other members for research and innovation Joint Undertakings under the current MFF.
  • EUR 5,6 billion budget for the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy under the current MFF.
  • EUR 3,2 billion total available payment budget for the twelve Joint Undertakings in 2024.
  • EUR 479 million cash surplus for the Chips Joint Undertaking at end of 2024, up from EUR 438 million at end of 2023.
  • EUR 904,7 million cash surplus for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking at end of 2024, up from EUR 840,7 million at end of 2023.
  • EUR 38,5 billion managed by Joint Undertakings for 2021-2027.
  • ITER delivery obligations rising from EUR 21,6 billion to EUR 25,8 billion in 2024 values, implying an additional EUR 4,2 billion in contributions.

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