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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
From the formal opening and vote on the 2024 Council discharge to the Secretary-General’s budget execution report and detailed Q&A on ethics, transparency, AI, communication policy and attendance, this block covers Parliament’s internal governance, controls and planned reforms for the next discharge cycle.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
Parliament stresses lessons for the next MFF while the Commission responds to ECA findings on RRF energy‑efficiency investments, explains its acceptance of recommendations, future performance framework, monitoring methods and EPC reforms, clarifies EU financing of the Italian Superbonus, and Schwab closes the item and public session.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
Tavares, Erixon and Schwab question the ECA on implementation of its recommendations, the real energy and climate impact of €43 billion in spending, and the macroeconomic and budgetary implications of Italy’s Superbonus, with the ECA clarifying its performance‑based concerns and follow‑up plans.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
The Court of Auditors presents its special report on RRF‑financed energy‑efficiency investments in residential buildings, detailing audit scope, main findings on renovation depth, reform design, result‑orientation, cost‑effectiveness and its recommendations to the Commission and Member States.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
Rapporteur and political groups set out their positions on the 2024 discharge to Council and European Council, focusing on Council’s non‑cooperation, accountability, unanimity, transparency and possible legal or procedural ways out of the long‑standing deadlock.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
Chair Schwab opens the CONT meeting, confirms interpretation and webstreaming, and formally adopts the agenda, minutes and coordinators’ decisions.
Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The ECA rapporteur stresses implementation weaknesses and the need for a dynamic strategy, while the Commission/OLAF details planned changes to make actions more ambitious, improve handling of unresolved OLAF recommendations and recoveries, integrate AI-related fraud risks and tools, and feed these elements into the upcoming PIF report and the broader anti-fraud architecture review.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
MEPs Eriksson, Zdechovský, Sanchez and Boyer raise concerns about weak implementation and follow-up to OLAF recommendations, insufficient outcome-focused monitoring and resources, AI and technological risks, the role of EPPO, and the need for a coherent EU anti-fraud architecture, with the Chair adding a specific question on integrating AI-related fraud risks into overall risk assessments.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The Commission/OLAF representative sets out the existing CAFS framework and planned improvements in oversight, risk assessment, actions and monitoring, while the Chair underlines the strategic relevance for sound financial management and the post‑2027 anti-fraud architecture review before opening the floor to MEPs.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the CONT agenda item on the Commission’s anti-fraud strategy, the ECA rapporteur presents the scope, findings and recommendations of Special Report 18/2026, and the Chair closes by inviting the Commission/OLAF to respond.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Budgetary control committee debate on the coordinators’ 24 June decision and draft letter regarding suspected irregular expenditure in the Patriots for Europe group’s 2024 financial report, with MEPs contesting the scope, strength and procedural handling of the response and possible further steps such as recovery of funds or referral to other bodies.
Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
European Parliament hearing of Austrian Court of Auditors nominee Gerhard Loacker, covering his introductory presentation, MEPs’ detailed questions on MFF, RRF and EU debt, and an extended exchange on his audit priorities, performance vs compliance focus, political independence and response to a potential negative EP opinion, concluding with the in‑camera vote endorsing his candidacy.
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Committee scrutinises the Austrian candidate Loacker on his audit experience, political independence, priorities for performance and impact auditing, cooperation with Parliament, and planned internal reforms of the ECA in the next MFF period.
Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The rapporteur and Commission assess administrative capacity, cohesion policy outcomes and anti‑fraud systems in past enlargements, while MEPs add national perspectives, stress simplification, decentralisation and social cohesion, and call for stronger rule‑of‑law and anti‑corruption safeguards in future enlargement conditionality, before the rapporteur outlines next steps and the Chair closes the enlargement point.
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Debate on how cohesion policy has functioned in past enlargements and what institutional, rule‑of‑law and administrative benchmarks should guide access to EU funds for future member states, including issues of digitalisation, simplification, subsidiarity and anti‑corruption safeguards.
Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
András László and 4 others
MEPs raise concerns about recent constitutional and electoral changes in Hungary and question how they interact with EU rule of law standards, the conditionality mechanism and protection of EU funds, prompting the Commission to clarify the legal and financial treatment of Hungary under the EPPO, Court ruling on the child protection law, cohesion policy and the RRF before the Chair closes the item.
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Tamás Deutsch and 17 others
MEPs criticise Hungary’s rule of law situation, Erasmus+ exclusion and possible double standards while probing the design and application of super milestones and RRF conditionality, including judicial independence, stakeholder consultation, EPPO and safeguards against reform backsliding in Hungary and Spain.
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Andreas Schwab and 7 others
MEPs question the Commission on Hungary’s reform timeline, frozen funds and market distortions, followed by detailed explanations of Hungary’s anti‑corruption and rule of law commitments and the legal framework of the conditionality mechanism and related EU instruments.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
In a joint BUDG–CONT session, the Commission presents the legal and financial architecture for potentially unfreezing EU funds to Hungary under the RRF, cohesion policy and conditionality regulation, outlines recent rule-of-law reforms and Article 7 developments, and receives initial MEP scrutiny on remaining reforms and the concrete calendar for decisions.
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Andreas Schwab and 4 others
Closure of the previous item, formal opening of the joint BUDG–CONT meeting, adoption of agenda and minutes, and introduction of the main debate on Hungary, EU funds, MFF and rule of law conditionality with initial Commission presentations.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
Ukrainian parliamentarians and oversight bodies, together with Commission and Europol representatives, detail the anti-corruption framework, sectoral enforcement priorities, accession-related ‘fundamentals’ reforms, and specific mechanisms to audit, control and protect EU-funded programmes, followed by MEP feedback and Ukrainian closing remarks on legislative follow-up needs.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the CONT meeting, adopts agenda and minutes, then faces a formal contestation of a coordinators’ decision on a ‘Patriots for Europe’ financial-report letter, leading to procedural clarifications and scheduling of a later vote on the contested item.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting ICM
National MPs and MEPs debate how to finance EU‑level defence and strategic investments through the MFF and new own resources, then assess the proposed MFF structure and timetable, warning that debt, merged envelopes and excessive flexibility could undermine CAP, cohesion and fisheries while weakening transparency, parliamentary scrutiny and democratic accountability.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting ICM
Carla Tavares and 3 others
OLAF and the EP rapporteur outline governance, audit, anti‑fraud and traceability lessons from the RRF for the next MFF, followed by initial political reactions from the Chair and national/EU parliamentarians defending cohesion and CAP, criticising performance‑based national plans and warning against cuts and centralisation.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting ICM
Andreas Schwab and 1 other
Chair Schwab closes the first panel, reopens the sitting, and launches the second session on the next MFF, followed by Italian, French and Dutch parliamentarians outlining priorities on preserving CAP and cohesion, resisting renationalisation via national plans, structuring a European Competitiveness Fund, and defining new own resources and conditionality with demographic and regional equity concerns.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting ICM
National MPs present implementation performance and systemic execution risks of their recovery plans, question the politicisation and effectiveness of RRF conditionality and controls, and receive a detailed European Court of Auditors assessment comparing the RRF control framework with cohesion policy and highlighting key transparency and performance gaps.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting ICM
Andreas Schwab and 3 others
Introduces the interparliamentary meeting’s focus on RRF oversight and the next MFF, then moves to national parliament interventions and a specific Spain‑related case illustrating broader weaknesses in beneficiary transparency, fund tracing and conditionality enforcement.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
The Commission responds to the European Court of Auditors by rejecting recommended regulatory changes on RRF transparency and cost data while defending the current legal framework, after which MEPs intensify scrutiny on missing actual cost data, traceability of final beneficiaries, possible overcompensation risks and the legal interpretation of Article 22, signalling potential implications for discharge and future legislation.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
The Chair opens the agenda point on RRF transparency and gives the floor to the European Court of Auditors, which presents its mandate and audit scope on tracing funds to final beneficiaries. The ECA then details its findings on member states’ limited central traceability, lack of systematic actual cost data, opacity on private‑sector beneficiaries and recommends strengthening the Financial Regulation and mandatory cost data collection across EU instruments.
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Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
The Chair opens the CONT meeting, adopts the agenda and cohesion‑fund vote, then moves to the draft report on cross‑border VAT fraud where the rapporteur and groups set out priorities on prevention, data sharing, EPPO/OLAF roles, VAT Directive reform, customs controls and rule‑of‑law conditionality. OLAF then explains its specific mandate on import‑related VAT fraud and cooperation with national and EU bodies, before the Chair closes the item and sets deadlines for amendments and the vote.
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