Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council

2025/2147(DEC) · Discharge procedure

Procedure 2025/2147(DEC) (discharge procedure) concerns “Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council”; the committee responsible is CONT (Budgetary Control). Completed: Published in the Official Journal on 10 Sep 2026. Parliament held roll-call votes on 2 days, most recently on 21 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 434 votes in favour, 203 against and 21 abstentions.

Reference: 2025/2147(DEC)
Type: Discharge procedure
Official title: Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European Council and Council
Status: Completed
Lead: CONT Budgetary Control
Opinion: AFCO Constitutional Affairs
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: Pasquale Tridico (The Left, Italy)
Shadow rapporteurs: Csaba Molnár (S&D, Hungary), Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (Renew, Netherlands), Andrey Kovatchev (EPP, Bulgaria), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (ECR, Romania), Ondřej Knotek (PfE, Czechia)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council (A10-0051/2026), 29 Apr 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0051/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 432 for, 160 against, 65 abstentions; plus 3 more roll-call votes
Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council (A10-0258/2026), 21 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0258/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 434 for, 203 against, 21 abstentions; plus 4 more roll-call votes

Timeline

9 Sep 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
22 Sep 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
17 Dec 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
2 Mar 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
27 Mar 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
28 Apr 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting
2 Jul 2026: Parliamentary committee tabling report
10 Sep 2026: Publication in the Official Journal
1 Oct 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
6 Oct 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.