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Draft amending budget no 1 to the general budget 2025 entering the surplus of the financial year 2024

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

Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 12 September 2025 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 19 June 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 24 June 2025
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 26 June 2025
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 9 July 2025
  5. ✓ Published as law 12 September 2025
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
Victor NEGRESCU S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Andrzej HALICKI PPEAuke ZIJLSTRA PfEBogdan RZOŃCA ECRFabienne KELLER RenewRasmus ANDRESEN Verts/ALENikolas FARANTOURIS The LeftAlexander 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 TA10-0151/2025 9 July 2025 ✦ Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 budget surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0116/2025 26 June 2025 ✦ Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (BUDG) 14 May 2025 ✦ The draft report concerns Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget. Parliament approves the Council position but calls for sustainable revenue and flexibility.

Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: The versions differ only in formal points and wording: the title of the draft amending budget is completed, a percentage format is corrected, and two abbreviations are spelled out. see the changes →

Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: The changes add emphasis on legally binding commitments and expand the call for new own resources to address higher spending needs and geopolitical challenges. The other changes are formal: capitalisation and punctuation updates. 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. 12 September 2025 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. Plenary stage
  4. 9 July 2025 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 9 July 2025 📄 Report A10-0116/2025📄 Adopted text TA10-0151/2025
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 534 Against 102 Abstained 56

    Final vote — text as a whole at 13:25 · 77% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 12 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 12 ballots in voting order
    1. Separate vote on paragraph 1
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    2. Amendment 1 to paragraph 2 13:23 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – § 2 – Am 1
    Rejected
    3. Amendment 2 to paragraph 3 13:23 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – § 3 – Am 2
    Rejected
    4. Separate vote on paragraph 5
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    5. Separate vote on paragraph 6
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    6. Separate vote on paragraph 7
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    7. Separate vote on paragraph 8
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    8. Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 7 13:24 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – After § 7 – Am 6
    Rejected
    9. Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 7 13:24 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – After § 7 – Am 3
    Rejected
    10. Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 8 13:24 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – After § 8 – Am 4
    Rejected
    11. Amendment 5, adding text after recital D 13:24 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – After recital D – Am 5
    Rejected
    12. Final vote — text as a whole 13:25 A10-0116/2025 – Victor Negrescu – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  5. 2 July 2025 6 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendments 1–4📄 Amendments 5–6
  6. 26 June 2025 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0116/2025
  7. Committee stage
  8. 24 June 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  9. 19 June 2025 Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.

  10. 13 June 2025 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (BUDG)
  11. 14 May 2025 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (BUDG)