2026/0806(NLE) Non-legislative procedure First reading

Partial renewal of Members of the Court of Auditors - AT nominee

Parliament is asked to approve a decision — typically an international agreement — which it can accept or reject but not amend.

Where it stands: Parliament gave its consent on 16 September 2026. The Council can now conclude the act.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 15 June 2026
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 14 July 2026
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 17 July 2026
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 16 September 2026
  5. 5 Published as law
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
CONT — Budgetary Control
Rapporteur
Paulo CUNHA PPE
Shadow rapporteurs
Carla TAVARES S&DRoman HAIDER PfEDick ERIXON ECRGilles BOYER RenewJonas 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

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA10-0302/2026 16 September 2026 ✦ Parliament delivers a favourable opinion on the Council's nomination of Gerald Loacker as a Member of the Court of Auditors.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0210/2026 17 July 2026 ✦ The Committee on Budgetary Control delivers a favourable opinion on the Council's nomination of Gerald Loacker as a Member of the Court of Auditors.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (CONT) 29 June 2026 ✦ This is a draft report by the Committee on Budgetary Control on the nomination of Gerald Loacker as a Member of the Court of Auditors. It proposes a decision delivering a favourable or unfavourable opinion on the Council's nomination.

Committee draft → Tabled for plenary: The report now delivers a favourable opinion on the nomination of Gerald Loacker as a Member of the Court of Auditors, where the earlier draft left open whether the opinion would be favourable or unfavourable. 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. Plenary stage
  2. 16 September 2026 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 16 September 2026 📄 Adopted text TA10-0302/2026📄 Report A10-0210/2026
    Adopted Adopted by a clear majority
    For 331 Against 282 Abstained 30

    Nomination of Gerald Loacker · 51% of votes cast in favour

  3. 17 July 2026 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0210/2026
  4. Committee stage
  5. 14 July 2026 Committee vote: report adopted

    CONT (Budgetary Control) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  6. 29 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)
  7. 15 June 2026 Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.