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Own-initiative report First reading

Evaluating the successes achieved and lessons learned from EU enlargements since 2004 in the implementation of 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: In committee: CONT (Budgetary Control) is preparing the report (draft published 23 June 2026).

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 3 April 2025
  2. 2 Committee work CONT (Budgetary Control) preparing the report
  3. 3 Tabled for plenary
  4. 4 Plenary vote
  5. 5 Parliament’s position
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
Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
Csaba MOLNÁR S&DOndřej KNOTEK PfEŞerban Dimitrie STURDZA ECRVlad VASILE-VOICULESCU RenewErik MARQUARDT Verts/ALEJonas SJÖSTEDT The Left

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

Committee draft · latest Draft report (CONT) 23 June 2026 ✦ This is a draft report by the Committee on Budgetary Control on the lessons from EU enlargements since 2004 for the EU budget. It finds that administrative capacity, institutional stability, digital readiness and audit culture matter more than the choice of governance model.

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. Committee stage
  2. 22 July 2026 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of CONT (Budgetary Control) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (CONT)
  3. 23 June 2026 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (CONT)
  4. 3 April 2025 Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.