Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council

2024/2021(DEC) · Discharge procedure

Procedure 2024/2021(DEC) (discharge procedure) concerns “Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council”; the committee responsible is CONT (Budgetary Control). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 8 Oct 2025. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 22 Oct 2025 (final vote): adopted with 441 votes in favour, 125 against and 73 abstentions.

Reference: 2024/2021(DEC)
Type: Discharge procedure
Official title: 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council
Status: Completed
Lead: CONT Budgetary Control
Opinion: AFCO Constitutional Affairs (opinion: Sven Simon (EPP, Germany))
AFET Foreign Affairs
AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development
BUDG Budgets
CULT Culture and Education
DEVE Development
ECON Economic and Monetary Affairs
EMPL Employment and Social Affairs
ENVI Environment, Climate and Food Safety
FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection
INTA International Trade
ITRE Industry, Research and Energy
JURI Legal Affairs
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
PECH Fisheries
REGI Regional Development
SANT Public Health
SEDE Security and Defence
TRAN Transport and Tourism
Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR, Poland)
Shadow rapporteurs: Pasquale Tridico (The Left, Italy), Damian Boeselager (Greens/EFA, Germany), Csaba Molnár (S&D, Hungary), Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (Renew, Netherlands), Andrey Kovatchev (EPP, Bulgaria), Virginie Joron (PfE, France), Alexander Jungbluth (ESN, Germany)
Opinions: 4 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council (A10-0052/2025), 7 May 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0052/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 526 for, 119 against, 20 abstentions; plus 8 more roll-call votes
Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council (A10-0167/2025), 22 Oct 2025: final vote, main vote: A10-0167/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 441 for, 125 against, 73 abstentions; plus 5 more roll-call votes

Timeline

11 Sep 2024: Appointment of a rapporteur
17 Sep 2024: Proposal referred to plenary
18 Nov 2024: Committee tabling an opinion
16 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
29 Jan 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
18 Mar 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
1 Apr 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6 May 2025: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
12 Aug 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
24 Sep 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
26 Sep 2025: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
8 Oct 2025: Publication in the Official Journal
22 Oct 2025: EP decision

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)

Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.