2026/0066(BUD) Budgetary procedure First reading

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium – EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty

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

Where it stands: Completed: published in the Official Journal on 21 May 2026 and now EU law.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 9 March 2026
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 8 April 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 14 April 2026
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 29 April 2026
  5. ✓ Published as law 21 May 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
Matthias ECKE S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Hélder SOUSA SILVA PPEAngéline FURET PfEBogdan RZOŃCA ECROlivier CHASTEL RenewNicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ Verts/ALENikolas FARANTOURIS The Left
For opinion
EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs · rapporteur Johan DANIELSSON S&DREGI — Regional Development

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 Draft report (BUDG) 6 March 2026⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0084/2026 14 April 2026⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA10-0145/2026 29 April 2026

Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph.

Timeline

  1. Outcome
  2. 21 May 2026 Published in the Official Journal

    The act is now EU law.

  3. Plenary stage
  4. 29 April 2026 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 29 April 2026 📄 Report A10-0084/2026📄 Adopted text TA10-0145/2026
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 586 Against 48 Abstained 16

    Final vote — text as a whole at 14:32 · 90% 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: paragraph 8 § 8
    show of hands — no individual positions recorded
    Rejected
    2. Final vote — text as a whole 14:32 A10-0084/2026 – Matthias Ecke – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
    Adopted
  5. 21 April 2026 1 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

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

    📄 Amendment 1
  6. 14 April 2026 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0084/2026
  7. Committee stage
  8. 8 April 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  9. 23 March 2026 Amendments tabled in committee

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

    📄 Amendments in committee (BUDG)
  10. 17 March 2026 Committee opinion adopted

    The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.

  11. 9 March 2026 Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), REGI (Regional Development) give an opinion.

  12. 6 March 2026 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (BUDG)