2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 25 November 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- ✓ Referred to committee 13 February 2025
- ✓ Committee work Report adopted 16 October 2025
- ✓ Tabled for plenary 4 November 2025
- ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 25 November 2025
- ✓ 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
- Marit MAIJ S&D
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Caterina CHINNICI PPEVirginie JORON PfEDick ERIXON ECROlivier CHASTEL 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
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament: Softens several requirements: drops mandatory suspension, quotas, and legally binding minimum share. Adds safeguards against unintended consequences in strategic sectors like defence and calls for measures to avoid adverse investment effects. Strengthens the call for ex ante impact assessments to consider and minimise negative effects on gender equality. The other changes are formal: decimal commas and list formatting. see the changes →
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: Updates budget data for financial years 2021-2024, changing percentages and totals. Adds new recitals on intersectionality, family, and Interinstitutional Agreement, and removes old recitals on decline and impact assessments. Expands methodology description and limitations, including OECD marker comparison and intersectional dimensions. Adds calls for systematic impact assessments, fiscal policy measures, and data collection improvements. Changes external actions budget allocation and adds new paragraphs on women's rights and pay gap. 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
- Plenary stage
- 25 November 2025 Plenary voteAdopted Adopted by a clear majorityFor 389 Against 213 Abstained 36
Final vote — text as a whole at 12:58 · 61% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →
Show all 15 ballots in voting order
1. Separate vote on paragraph 4AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recordedRejected3. Separate vote on paragraph 18Adoptedelectronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded4. Separate vote on paragraph 28AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded5. Separate vote on paragraph 29AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded6. Separate vote on paragraph 29Rejectedelectronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded7. Separate vote on paragraph 31AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded8. Separate vote on paragraph 31Rejectedelectronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded9. Separate vote on paragraph 32AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded10. Separate vote on paragraph 32RejectedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded11. Separate vote on paragraph 37AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded12. Separate vote on paragraph 37Adoptedelectronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded13. Separate vote on paragraph 39AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded14. Separate vote on paragraph 39AdoptedA vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how. — no individual positions recorded15. Final vote — text as a whole 12:58 A10-0212/2025 – Marit Maij – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)Adopted - 19 November 2025 4 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
- 4 November 2025 Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
- Committee stage
- 16 October 2025 Committee vote: report adopted
CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
- 22 September 2025 Amendments tabled in committee
Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.
- 4 August 2025 Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in CONT (Budgetary Control). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
- 13 February 2025 Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.