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2023/2134(DEC) Discharge procedure First reading

2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European External Action Service

Parliament checks how an EU institution or agency spent a past year’s budget and signs it off — or refuses to.

Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 October 2024 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 12 September 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 22 February 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 12 March 2024
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 11 April 2024
  5. ✓ Parliament’s position Final
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. The adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
CONT — Budgetary Control
Rapporteur
Monika HOHLMEIER PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
MEP #197482 IDMEP #239271 PPEMEP #197584 S&DMEP #28372 ECRMEP #212855 RenewMEP #197539 Verts/ALE
For opinion
DEVE — Development AFCO — Constitutional Affairs AFET — Foreign Affairs · rapporteur MEP #197588 Renew

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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0236/2024 11 April 2024 ✦ Parliament grants the High Representative discharge for the European External Action Service (EEAS) budget for 2022 and sets out observations in a resolution.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0102/2024 12 March 2024 ✦ Parliament grants the High Representative discharge for the European External Action Service (EEAS) budget for 2022, with observations in a resolution.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (CONT) 14 December 2023 ✦ This draft report proposes a decision on granting the High Representative discharge for the EEAS budget for 2022, with observations in a resolution.

Committee opinions: Opinion (AFET),Draft opinion (AFET)

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

  1. Outcome
  2. 10 October 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. Plenary stage
  4. 11 April 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 11 April 2024 📄 Adopted text TA9-0236/2024📄 Report A9-0102/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 532 Against 69 Abstained 3

    Final vote at 13:03 · 88% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 24 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 24 ballots in voting order
    1. Final vote 13:03 A9-0102/2024 – Monika Hohlmeier – Proposal for a decision
    Adopted
    2. Separate vote on paragraph 13
    — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    3. Separate vote on paragraph 15
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    4. Separate vote on paragraph 16
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    5. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 17
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    6. Separate vote on paragraph 34
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    7. Separate vote on paragraph 34
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    8. Separate vote on paragraph 35
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    9. Separate vote on paragraph 35
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    10. Separate vote on paragraph 59
    — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    11. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 69
    — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    12. Separate vote on paragraph 77
    electronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    13. Separate vote on paragraph 88
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    14. Separate vote on paragraph 88
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    15. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 88
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    16. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 88
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    17. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 88
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    18. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 88
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    19. Separate vote on paragraph 89
    — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    20. Separate vote on paragraph 89
    electronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    21. Separate vote on paragraph 89
    — no individual positions recorded
    22. Separate vote on paragraph 89
    — no individual positions recorded
    23. Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 89 13:06 A9-0102/2024 – Monika Hohlmeier – After § 89 – Am 11
    Rejected
    24. Final vote — text as a whole 13:06 A9-0102/2024 – Monika Hohlmeier – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  5. 10 April 2024 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

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  6. 12 March 2024 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A9-0102/2024
  7. Committee stage
  8. 22 February 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

    CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  9. 23 January 2024 AFET (Foreign Affairs) adopted its opinion

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

    📄 Opinion (AFET)
  10. 14 December 2023 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (CONT)
  11. 15 November 2023 Draft opinion from AFET (Foreign Affairs)

    An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.

    📄 Draft opinion (AFET)
  12. 12 September 2023 Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; DEVE (Development), AFCO (Constitutional Affairs), AFET (Foreign Affairs) give an opinion.