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Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025

TA-10-2026-0242 · P10_TA(2026)0242 · PE787.947

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2026, which enters the 2025 surplus of EUR 2 095 million into the 2026 budget. It regrets that this reduces Member States' GNI-based contributions and calls for new own resources of at least EUR 60 billion per year for the next MFF.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2026, entering the 2025 surplus of EUR 2 095 million.
  2. Notes the surplus components: positive revenue outturn of EUR 1 994 million and under-spend of EUR 101 million.
  3. Welcomes that the surplus is driven by higher custom duties (EUR 860 million) and financial revenue, default interest and fines (EUR 840 million).
  4. Regrets that budgeting the surplus reduces GNI-based contributions; stresses need for budget flexibility in the current MFF's final years.
  5. Recalls that windfall gains from fines and fees should be supplementary revenue, not decrease GNI-based contributions.
  6. Notes adjusted GNI lump-sum reductions for five Member States of about EUR 5.8 billion net; highlights inflation-linked rebates increasing faster than MFF ceilings.
  7. Welcomes the negative income item of EUR 54 million for settlement agreement costs; invites a definitive solution after 31 December 2027.
  8. Calls for sustainable revenue and new own resources of at least EUR 60 billion per year for the 2028-2034 MFF.

Who is affected

  • Member States: their GNI-based contributions to the 2026 budget are reduced by the surplus amount.
  • Five beneficiary Member States: receive adjusted annual GNI lump-sum reductions of around EUR 5.8 billion net.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 2 095 million: surplus from financial year 2025 entered in the 2026 budget.
  • EUR 1 994 million: positive outturn on revenue.
  • EUR 101 million: under-spend on expenditure.
  • EUR 860 million: higher-than-expected custom duties.
  • EUR 840 million: financial revenue, default interest and fines.
  • EUR 111 million: under-implementation in payments by all institutions.
  • EUR 5.8 billion: net adjusted annual GNI lump-sum reductions for five Member States.
  • EUR 54 million: negative income item under Article 425.

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