Draft amending budget no 3 to the general budget 2025 - Adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates
A decision on EU spending: the annual budget, amending budgets or emergency funds.
Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 26 January 2026 and now EU law.
- ✓ Referred to committee 24 November 2025
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 20 November 2025
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 20 November 2025
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 26 November 2025
- ✓ Published as law 26 January 2026
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
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: The versions differ only in wording: acronyms are expanded and a phrase is clarified. see the changes →
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: The new version adds a paragraph on salary adjustments for 2025, agreeing to integrate their impact and noting a reduction of EUR 78.8 million under Heading 7. 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
- Outcome
- 26 January 2026 Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
- Plenary stage
- 26 November 2025 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by a large majorityFor 519 Against 99 Abstained 45
Final vote — text as a whole at 12:08 · 78% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
Show all 10 ballots in voting order
Rejected2. Separate vote on paragraph 2AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded3. Separate vote on paragraph 4AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedRejectedRejected6. Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 8 12:07 A10-0237/2025 – Victor Negrescu – After § 8 – Am 5Rejected7. Separate vote on citation 6AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded8. Separate vote on citation 7AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedRejected10. Final vote — text as a whole 12:08 A10-0237/2025 – Victor Negrescu – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)Adopted - 24 November 2025 5 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
- Committee stage
- 24 November 2025 Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
- Plenary stage
- 20 November 2025 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 20 November 2025 Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 10 November 2025 Amendments tabled in committee
Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.
- 29 October 2025 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.