Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget

2025/2121(INI) · Own-initiative procedure

Procedure 2025/2121(INI) (own-initiative procedure) concerns “Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget”; the committee responsible is CONT (Budgetary Control). Concluded in Parliament: Last voted on 20 Oct 2026: adopted. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 20 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 357 votes in favour, 274 against and 31 abstentions.

Reference: 2025/2121(INI)
Type: Own-initiative procedure
Status: Concluded in Parliament
Lead: CONT Budgetary Control
Rapporteur: Ondřej Knotek (PfE, Czechia)
Shadow rapporteurs: Pasquale Tridico (The Left, Italy), Eero Heinäluoma (S&D, Finland), Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP, Czechia), Joachim Stanisław Brudziński (ECR, Poland)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget (A10-0213/2026), 20 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0213/2026 – Ondřej Knotek – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 357 for, 274 against, 31 abstentions; plus 1 more roll-call vote

Timeline

19 Jun 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
6 Aug 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
8 Jun 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
14 Jul 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
21 Jul 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting

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.