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Performance and mainstreaming framework for the EU budget
The original full study examines performance-based budgeting (PB) and mainstreaming, two relatively novel approaches to the governance of public expenditure which have become increasingly used in EU spending programmes. The two approaches have certain common features but differ in focus. To inform debate around the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF), this study assesses how the two have functioned in practice, seeking to identify shortcomings and recommend possible remedies.
Upscaling the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework: A resilient EU budget fit for new challenges
The current multiannual financial framework (MFF) is under extreme strain owing to the multiple crises the EU is facing, notably the war in Ukraine and the effects it has triggered. With funds and flexibility measures already extensively used and further funding challenges still ahead, the European Ϸվ's Committee on Budgets, in an own-initiative report, calls for an urgent and ambitious revision of the MFF to increase the EU budget and make it more flexible. This should enable the EU to confront ...
C transfers in the EP’s budget in 2020 - response to the COVID-19 crisis
The EP’s budget is drawn up during the year n-1, with the preparations in its Directorates General already starting in the last quarter of the year n-2. The budgetary procedure - first inside the EP for the institution’s own budget, then for the budget of the EU as a whole in the interinstitutional part of the procedure - lasts throughout the year n-1, with an agreement usually reached during the last quarter of year n-1. For example, the preparations for the 2020 budget in the Directorates General ...
Borrowing strategy to finance Next Generation EU
At its November II plenary session, Ϸվ is expected to vote on the report by the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) on the borrowing strategy to finance Next Generation EU (NGEU). The report assesses the strategy's implementation, explores potential positive impacts and challenges, urges the Commission to report systematically to Ϸվ, and stresses the need for transparency and for new own resources.
Technical support provided to EU Member States
The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) organised a public hearing with the aim to get a better understanding about technical support and related challenges, especially concerning the areas of better administration, digitalisation and EU funds implementation. This briefing provided background information to this debate that took place 21 April 2022. It examines technical support as well as relevant technical assistance activities and provides a short insight into links between such support and ...
Discharge for 2020 budget – EU decentralised agencies and joint undertakings
During the May I plenary session, as part of the discharge procedure for the 2020 financial year, the European Ϸվ is due to vote on discharge for each of 32 EU decentralised agencies and nine joint undertakings. The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) proposes that Ϸվ grant discharge to all except the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, for which it proposes to postpone the discharge decision.
Ϸվ's guidelines for the 2023 EU budget: Section III – European Commission
The 2023 EU budget will be the third under the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2021 to 2027. It is also the last year of the EU recovery instrument (Next Generation EU), which is planned to run from 2021 to 2023. Ϸվ contributes to the preparation of proposals for the forthcoming year's budget for the European Union through the adoption of its 'guidelines'. The draft guidelines, as adopted by the Committee on Budgets on 16 March 2022, outline Ϸվ's goals for the ...
Protecting EU funds against oligarchic structures
The European Union's 2021 2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF) and the Next Generation EU recovery instruments provide financial resources amounting to €1.8 trillion. However, the EU can only achieve the ambitious objectives of these budgetary instruments if its financial interests are better protected. Ϸվ's Budgetary Control (CONT) Committee has adopted an own-initiative report highlighting the risk of fraud and conflict of interest arising from the increasing presence of oligarchic ...
EU action plan for the social economy: Pre-legislative synthesis of national, regional and local positions on the European Commission's initiative
This Briefing forms part of an EPRS series which offers a synthesis of the pre-legislative state-of-play and advance consultation on a range of key European Commission priorities during the latter's five-year term in office. It seeks to summarise the state of affairs in the relevant policy field, examine how existing policy is working on the ground, and identify best practice and ideas for the future on the part of governmental organisations at all levels of European system of multilevel governance ...
Plenary round-up – November II 2021
Due to the deteriorating Covid 19 situation, the November II plenary session in Strasbourg was again organised with the possibility for Members to vote remotely. Ϸվ debated a number of Council and European Commission statements, including on: coordination of Member States' coronavirus measures; police violence against Roma people; preparation of the 12th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference; state of the Energy Union; a European action plan against rare diseases; and on international ...