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2026/2090(DEC) Discharge procedure First reading

Discharge 2025: General budget of the EU - Agencies

Parliament checks how an EU institution or agency spent a past year’s budget and signs it off — or refuses to.

Where it stands: Referred to CONT (Budgetary Control) on 15 September 2026; no report yet.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 15 September 2026
  2. 2 Committee work
  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
Jonas SJÖSTEDT The Left
Shadow rapporteurs
Caterina CHINNICI PPEMarit MAIJ S&DVirginie JORON PfEŞerban Dimitrie STURDZA ECRGilles BOYER RenewErik MARQUARDT Verts/ALE
For opinion
AFET — Foreign Affairs TRAN — Transport and Tourism · rapporteur Nils UŠAKOVS S&DPECH — Fisheries · rapporteur Giuseppe LUPO S&DCULT — Culture and Education ENVI — Environment, Climate and Food Safety · rapporteur Pierfrancesco MARAN S&DIMCO — Internal Market and Consumer Protection ECON — Economic and Monetary Affairs EMPL — Employment and Social Affairs · rapporteur Romana TOMC PPELIBE — Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs FEMM — Women’s Rights and Gender Equality SANT — Public Health · rapporteur Kateřina KONEČNÁ NIITRE — Industry, Research and Energy

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

Timeline

  1. Committee stage
  2. 15 September 2026 Referred to the CONT (Budgetary Control) committee

    The lead committee prepares the report; AFET (Foreign Affairs), TRAN (Transport and Tourism), PECH (Fisheries), CULT (Culture and Education), ENVI (Environment, Climate and Food Safety), IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection), ECON (Economic and Monetary Affairs), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality), SANT (Public Health), ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) give an opinion.