Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission

2025/2145(DEC) · Discharge procedure

Procedure 2025/2145(DEC) (discharge procedure) concerns “Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission”; the committee responsible is CONT (Budgetary Control). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 10 Sep 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 29 Apr 2026 (final vote): adopted with 418 votes in favour, 207 against and 14 abstentions.

Reference
2025/2145(DEC)
Type
Discharge procedure
Official title
Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Commission
Status
Completed
Lead
CONT Budgetary Control
Opinion
AFCO Constitutional Affairs
AFET Foreign Affairs (opinion: Evin Incir (S&D, Sweden))
AGRI Agriculture and Rural Development (opinion: Veronika Vrecionová (ECR, Czechia))
BUDG Budgets
CULT Culture and Education (opinion: Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, Portugal))
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: Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle (Renew, Netherlands))
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: Evin Incir (S&D, Sweden))
PECH Fisheries
REGI Regional Development (opinion: Gabriella Gerzsenyi (EPP, Hungary))
SANT Public Health (opinion: Kateřina Konečná (Non-attached, Czechia))
SEDE Security and Defence
TRAN Transport and Tourism (opinion: Gheorghe Falcă (EPP, Romania))
Rapporteur
Daniel Freund (Greens/EFA, Germany)
Shadow rapporteurs
Pasquale Tridico (The Left, Italy), Eero Heinäluoma (S&D, Finland), Olivier Chastel (Renew, Belgium), Tomáš Zdechovský (EPP, Czechia), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR, Romania), Virginie Joron (PfE, France)
Opinions
48 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion

Roll-call votes in Parliament

  • Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission (A10-0085/2026), 29 Apr 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0085/2026 – Daniel Freund – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 418 for, 207 against, 14 abstentions; plus 37 more roll-call votes

Timeline

  1. 9 Sep 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
  2. 17 Sep 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
  3. 3 Dec 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  4. 12 Jan 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  5. 15 Jan 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  6. 20 Jan 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
  7. 27 Jan 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  8. 28 Jan 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
  9. 24 Mar 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
  10. 10 Apr 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
  11. 28 Apr 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
  12. 29 Apr 2026: EP decision
  13. 10 Sep 2026: Publication in the Official Journal

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.