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Draft amending budget no 2 to the general budget 2024 entering the surplus of the financial year 2023

A decision on EU spending: the annual budget, amending budgets or emergency funds.

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

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 7 October 2024
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 7 October 2024
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 8 October 2024
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 22 October 2024
  5. ✓ Published as law 10 December 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. The Council takes the final decision, and the act is published in the Official Journal.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
BUDG — Budgets
Rapporteur
Siegfried MUREŞAN PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
Victor NEGRESCU S&DBogdan RZOŃCA ECRFabienne KELLER RenewRasmus NORDQVIST Verts/ALEAlexander JUNGBLUTH ESN

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 TA10-0023/2024 22 October 2024 ✦ Parliament approved the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0005/2024 8 October 2024 ✦ Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (BUDG) 28 August 2024 ✦ The draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 2/2024, which enters the 2023 surplus of EUR 633 million into the 2024 budget. It approves the Council position and notes the surplus components and the impact on member state contributions.

Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: The only substantive change is that the amending budget number in the final instruction is corrected from 2/2024 to 3/2024. The other changes are formal: adding the word "No" in references to the draft amending budget. see the changes →

Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: Adds emphasis on budget flexibility and increasing needs, and calls for progress on own resources reform. see the changes →

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 December 2024 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. Plenary stage
  4. 22 October 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 22 October 2024 📄 Report A10-0005/2024📄 Adopted text TA10-0023/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 531 Against 91 Abstained 35

    Final vote — text as a whole at 13:08 · 81% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 2 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 2 ballots in voting order
    1. Separate vote on paragraph 6 13:08 A10-0005/2024 – Siegfried Mureşan – § 6
    Adopted
    2. Final vote — text as a whole 13:08 A10-0005/2024 – Siegfried Mureşan – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  5. 8 October 2024 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0005/2024
  6. Committee stage
  7. 7 October 2024 Committee vote: report adopted

    BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  8. 7 October 2024 Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.

  9. 28 August 2024 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (BUDG)