Financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast)
A proposed EU law. Parliament and the Council must agree on the same text: Parliament adopts its position, then negotiates with the Council.
Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 26 September 2024 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 12 September 2022
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 27 April 2023
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 4 May 2023
- ✓ Negotiations with the Council Deal approved in committee 24 January 2024
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 14 March 2024
- ✓ Published as law 26 September 2024
How a file moves through Parliament
A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. For a law, Parliament’s adopted text is its first-reading position; Parliament and the Council then negotiate a common text (trilogues) which both must approve before it is published as law.
Who is working on it
- Lead committee
- BUDG — Budgets
- Rapporteurs
- Nils UŠAKOVS S&DMonika HOHLMEIER PPE
- Shadow rapporteurs
- MEP #197742 S&DMEP #28372 ECRBogdan RZOŃCA ECRMEP #197482 IDAngelika WINZIG PPEMoritz KÖRNER RenewAlexandra GEESE Verts/ALEMEP #197588 RenewDaniel FREUND Verts/ALEYounous OMARJEE The Left
- For opinion
- LIBE — Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs AFET — Foreign Affairs REGI — Regional Development · rapporteur Daniel BUDA PPETRAN — Transport and Tourism AGRI — Agriculture and Rural Development JURI — Legal Affairs · rapporteur Magdalena ADAMOWICZ PPEDEVE — Development ITRE — Industry, Research and Energy · rapporteur MEP #38420 PPEPECH — Fisheries ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety
The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.
The text, version by version
Committee opinions: Opinion (REGI)
Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.
Timeline
- Outcome
- 26 September 2024 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- 23 September 2024 Signed by the Presidents of Parliament and the Council
The last step before the act is published in the Official Journal.
- Plenary stage
- 14 March 2024 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by a large majorityFor 437 Against 45 Abstained 72
Final vote on the provisional agreement at 12:20 · 79% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
Show all 9 ballots in voting order
1. Request to vote on the amendments to the draft legislative actRejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded2. Final vote on the provisional agreement 12:20 A9-0180/2023 – Monika Hohlmeier, Nils Ušakovs – Provisional agreement – Am 179Adopted3. Joint statement by Parliament and the CouncilAdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded4. Joint statement by Parliament, the Council and the CommissionAdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded5. Commission statementsAdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded6. Final vote Text as a wholeNot put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded7. Separate vote on Article 38, paragraph 7Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded8. Separate vote on Article 238, paragraph 1, after subparagraph 1Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedNot put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter. - 13 March 2024 Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
- Negotiations with the Council
- 24 January 2024 Committee approved the deal reached with the Council
The provisional agreement from the trilogues goes to the whole Parliament for a vote.
- 10 May 2023 Plenary endorsed the mandate to negotiate with the Council
Parliament’s negotiators can now seek a compromise text with the Council (in “trilogues”).
- Plenary stage
- 4 May 2023 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 27 April 2023 Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 25 April 2023 Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 9 March 2023 Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 23 January 2023 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text. Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 30 November 2022 REGI (Regional Development) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
- 12 September 2022 Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), AFET (Foreign Affairs), REGI (Regional Development), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), AGRI (Agriculture and Rural Development), JURI (Legal Affairs), DEVE (Development), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy), PECH (Fisheries), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety) give an opinion.