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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The Chair announces the next CONT meeting and formally closes the agenda, after which participants hold an informal exchange on committee competence mapping and the handling of a deleted ‘environmental crimes’ item for feedback purposes.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Ivana Maletić and 3 others
The Court of Auditors outlines shortcomings in how RRF measures address country‑specific recommendations and the lack of robust result indicators for public‑administration reforms, while the Commission contests this interpretation and defends its methodology; the rapporteur probes the gap between ‘addressed’ and ‘largely addressed’ CSRs, the real impact on administrative capacity and delays in Technical Support Instrument use, leading to a methodological debate on indicators, feasibility and how lessons should shape future NRPP and performance regulations.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Andreas Schwab and 3 others
After formally closing the earlier session, the acting Chair opens the Horizon 2020 industrial leadership item, with the ECA presenting audit findings on weak market uptake, excessive focus on mid‑stage innovation and monitoring gaps, followed by the Commission’s defence of Horizon Europe reforms and partial acceptance of recommendations, and a political exchange with the rapporteur on impact measurement, SME roles, funding instruments and beneficiary concentration, before the item is closed and the RRF public administration audit is introduced.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The EESC, Committee of the Regions, European Ombudsman and EDPS present 2025 budget execution, reforms and new mandates, then face intense questioning on OLAF investigations, corruption and conflict‑of‑interest allegations at the EESC, whistleblower and harassment protection, transparency of meetings and travel costs, and the Ombudsman’s complaint‑prioritisation rules, leading to institutional clarifications on anti‑fraud strategies, reporting channels, added value and the limits of disclosure, before rapporteurs close this discharge block and criticise the Council’s continued absence.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Rapporteurs and MEPs engage the Court of Auditors on performance audits, media financing, cybersecurity and stakeholder contacts, and the EPPO on Hungary’s accession, OLAF cooperation, fraud damage estimates, recovery of EU funds and chronic under-resourcing, with the EPPO defending its methodology and legal mandate while warning that large, complex fraud cases cannot be properly pursued without significantly increased and more stable funding.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the Court of Justice on travel and mission expenses, the impact of jurisdictional reforms, post‑mandate and lobbying transparency rules, and potential conflicts of interest in judges’ financial holdings, prompting detailed replies defending existing declarations, internal controls and judicial independence while rejecting calls for external verification, before the Chair closes this item and shifts the agenda back to the Court of Auditors.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Andreas Schwab and 1 other
The Chair opens the 2025 discharge hearings for other institutions, presents the ECA’s findings on administrative expenditure, and hears institutional statements from the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors’ own administration and the EPPO, highlighting workload trends, digital and AI initiatives, HR and building issues, and EPPO’s growing caseload alongside structural underfunding and IT autonomy risks.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
DG ITEC presents its 2025 reorganisation, reinforced IT and cybersecurity budget and planned savings, then answers a Q&A block on dependence on non‑EU technologies, staff use of external AI tools, incident statistics, AI‑driven threats and defensive automation, voting systems, email retention and phishing warnings, alleged fake Wi‑Fi and protected vs public networks, concluding with discussion of Parliament’s digital sovereignty efforts and closure of the session.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
DG COMM explains its mandate, budget, reform and use of campaigns, agencies and Europa Experience hubs, then addresses MEPs’ questions on youth outreach, MFF‑related advertising, disinformation work, influencers and opinion leaders, political balance, media funding transparency and journalist support, including detailed replies on the anti‑disinformation framework, relations with fact‑checkers, influencer and media practices, visitor statistics and the role of Parliament’s diversity in communication.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
DG FINS presents the 2025 budget execution, main cost drivers and internal control framework, then responds to questions on financial programming, assistant reimbursements, regulatory complexity, travel cost controls, Renew publications, non‑eligible expenditure by parties and groups, and the PfE case, detailing legal conditionality, audit constraints, travel agency pricing and the balance between group autonomy and financial oversight.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
DG INLO outlines its mandate, fixed building‑related budget obligations, major projects in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg, sustainability and accessibility duties, then answers MEPs’ questions on accessibility, Spaak cost and reporting, Europa Experience viability, Strasbourg savings, lift problems, outsourcing vs insourcing and visitor experience, with political feedback from the rapporteur.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
Launch of the CONT meeting and introduction of the 2025 discharge item for Parliament’s section, followed by DG PERS’s presentation of HR and budget priorities and a detailed Q&A on recruitment, controls, geobalance, anomalies and harassment, ending with clarification on trainee onboarding delays.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Bert-Jan Ruissen and 3 others
Debate turns to stronger sanctions and net financial corrections, possible funding of a specific citizens’ initiative, and rule‑of‑law enabling conditions in Poland and Hungary, before the chair thanks participants, confirms pending written follow‑ups and formally closes the discharge hearings and CONT meeting.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Olivier Chastel and 5 others
Rapporteur and MEPs scrutinise high cohesion error rates, weak management systems, slow 2021–27 absorption, the impact of the RRF, and the effectiveness of the Commission’s 22‑measure action plan, while the Commission explains reservations, payment interruptions and how ECA findings translate into corrective actions.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Andreas Schwab and 1 other
The chair closes the Heading 3 debate and opens the cohesion, resilience and values discharge hearing, with the ECA presenting cohesion error rates and procurement issues, and Commissioners Mînzatu and Fitto detailing ESF+ implementation, error handling, performance, and new anti‑fraud and management‑improvement tools.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur and MEPs question Commissioners and the ECA on eco‑scheme performance, high national error cases (Greece, Czechia, Slovakia), social conditionality, ‘do no significant harm’, the pace and cost of green regulation, and climate‑related spending oversight, prompting detailed replies on corrections, reforms and legal risks.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The 2025 discharge hearing on Natural Resources and Environment is launched with presentations from the ECA on CAP error rates and land‑eligibility risks, followed by Commissioners Hansen and Hoekstra outlining CAP assurance, performance, climate policy delivery and the use of ETS‑related funds.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The committee chair opens the CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, and leads voting on the anti‑fraud architecture report and the enlargement since 2004 report, with rapporteur presentations and final adoptions.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The ECA and OLAF respond on recommendations, data and bans, describe planned follow‑up via the Customs Data Hub and streamlined reporting, underline the difficulty of reliable market quantification, and the Chair concludes the debate and closes the meeting.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur and Members challenge the Commission’s stance on ECA recommendations, raise enforcement gaps, data weaknesses and burden on legal operators, and debate the impacts of taxation levels, product bans and possible use of tobacco excise as an EU own resource.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
OLAF details the evolution from border smuggling to intra‑EU manufacturing, stresses the centrality of intelligence and multi‑actor cooperation, and explains both the possibilities and institutional limits of EU‑level assessment and data‑driven market estimates.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the CONT item on illicit tobacco, presents the ECA special report and invited institutions, and the ECA outlines the scale, scope and main findings of its audit, including fragmented data, legal divergences and recommendations to strengthen the EU strategy.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary meeting
The committee moves from the Annual Report to the 2025 discharge, with Serafin presenting the integrated reporting package and performance data, followed by exchanges on RAL levels, recovery processes and tracking RRF impacts, further questions on Slovakia, unused funds, GNI reporting, RRF transparency and EPPO accession, and the Commission’s internal auditor reporting on overall system adequacy, problems in the EIC Accelerator and remaining internal control recommendations before the Chair closes the meeting.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary meeting
Ruissen and Hohlmeier question high cohesion error rates, low absorption and loss of additionality through RRF retrofitting, while Heinäluoma probes the effectiveness of ECA and discharge recommendations; the ECA outlines deadline‑driven spending risks, substitution effects in RRF plans, implementation statistics for recommendations, and Serafin provides an extended defence of the Commission’s methodologies, enforcement on paying agencies, legal basis for milestone revisions and approach to EU borrowing and debt service.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary meeting
MEPs Grapini, Sanchez, Erixon and Sjöstedt press the ECA on persistent errors, identification of weak member‑state authorities, legality and procurement shortcomings, rapid growth in EU borrowing and risks to the euro, while the ECA clarifies sample‑based error rates, limits on naming countries, transmission of suspected fraud to EPPO/OLAF, and the audit challenges and debt risks of RRF‑style, performance‑based frameworks; the Chair and Chinnici then focus on unequal treatment in RRF milestone changes and the need to spread best practices from stronger national control systems such as Italy’s.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary meeting
Commissioner Serafin reacts to the audit opinions and error levels, defending the Commission’s corrective tools, while the rapporteur and MEPs question the reliability of RRF controls, the gap between ECA and Commission error estimates, SUMMA implementation and lessons for future performance‑based instruments, with the ECA explaining its methodologies and assurance concerns.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary meeting
The ECA details high error rates in traditional MFF spending, structural weaknesses in CAP and cohesion controls, issues in the milestone‑based RRF model including double funding and weak national systems, and flags major risks linked to the next MFF’s borrowing, debt service and insufficient performance framework.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Extraordinary meeting
The Chair opens the extraordinary CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and introduces the 2025 Annual Report, after which ECA President Murphy presents the Court’s mandate, methods and confirmation of clean accounts and revenue for the EU budget.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
DG BUDG presents the 2025 accounts, own resources oversight and proposed 2028–2034 MFF control and transparency architecture, followed by rapporteur-led questions on 2025 discharge risks, error rates, RRF and Ukraine facility safeguards, VAT fraud, new own resources and modernisation of risk and recovery tools.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
This segment moves from lessons of the CONT fact-finding mission to Greece on CAP payment systems and whistleblower protection to co-rapporteurs’ proposals on the post‑2027 anti-fraud architecture and the Commission’s AFAR review, focusing on OLAF–EPPO coordination, data tools, recoveries and Member State cooperation.
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