Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

Procedure 2024/2019(DEC) (discharge procedure) concerns “Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds”; the committee responsible is CONT (Budgetary Control). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 8 Oct 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 7 May 2025 (final vote): adopted with 443 votes in favour, 202 against and 21 abstentions.

Reference

2024/2019(DEC)

Type

Discharge procedure

Official title

2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission

Status

Completed

Lead

CONT Budgetary Control

Opinion

AFCO Constitutional Affairs
AFET Foreign Affairs (opinion: Michael Gahler (EPP, Germany))
AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development (opinion: Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia))
BUDG Budgets
CULT Culture and Education (opinion: Nela Riehl (Greens/EFA, Germany))
DEVE Development (opinion: Charles Goerens (Renew, Luxembourg))
ECON Economic and Monetary Affairs
EMPL Employment and Social Affairs (opinion: Romana Tomc (EPP, Slovenia))
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety (opinion: Antonio Decaro (S&D, Italy))
FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (opinion: Lina Gálvez (S&D, Spain))
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
INTA International Trade
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
JURI Legal Affairs
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (opinion: Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP, Czechia))
PECH Fisheries
REGI Regional Development (opinion: Ľubica Karvašová (Renew, Slovakia))
SANT Public Health
SEDE Security and Defence
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Gheorghe Falcă (EPP, Romania))

Rapporteur

Niclas Herbst (EPP, Germany)

Shadow rapporteurs

Pasquale Tridico (The Left, Italy), Daniel Freund (Greens/EFA, Germany), José Cepeda (S&D, Spain), Olivier Chastel (Renew, Belgium), Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR, Poland), Tamás Deutsch (PfE, Hungary), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN, Germany)

Opinions

44 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds (A10-0074/2025), 7 May 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0074/2025 – Niclas Herbst – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 443 for, 202 against, 21 abstentions; plus 65 more roll-call votes

Timeline

1. 25 Jul 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
2. 17 Sep 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
3. 24 Oct 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
4. 7 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
5. 12 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
6. 13 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
7. 14 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
8. 15 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
9. 22 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
10. 12 Dec 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
11. 16 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
12. 28 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
13. 29 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
14. 30 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
15. 6 Feb 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
16. 18 Feb 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
17. 8 Apr 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
18. 23 Apr 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
19. 6 May 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
20. 7 May 2025: EP decision
21. 8 Oct 2025: Publication in the Official Journal

• All procedures

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)