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07-04-2025 16:30
Public Hearing on the Rule of Law Conditionality Mechanism

Изслушвания CONT BUDG
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As part of the scrutiny exercised by the European Ϸվ on the implementation of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation, the Committees on Budgets (BUDG) and on Budgetary Control (CONT) will hold a public hearing on the lessons learnt from this mechanism and ways to make it more effective.

The objective of this hearing is to feed into the implementation report that BUDG and CONT Members will prepare over the coming months, led by Jean-Marc Germain (S&D, Standing Rapporteur for BUDG) and Monika Hohlmeier (EPP, Standing Rapporteur for CONT).


The first panel will look at the effectiveness of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation in protecting the Union budget against rule of law breaches and ways to strengthen the rule of law via budget conditionality. The second one will look at the impact of the regulation on the ground, from the perspective of civil society and local authorities.

The invited speakers are:

- Ms Delphine Freymann (Venice Commission);

- Ms Thu Nguyen (Jacques Delors Center);

- Mr Benedek Jávor (Representation of Budapest to the EU, Energy Cities Association);

- Mr András Léderer (Hungarian Helsinki Committee);

- Ms Katarína Batková (VIA IURIS).