Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting CONT Committee meeting
10 November 2026
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CONT European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:05 - 02:05
Speaker 2
So good morning, colleagues. I warmly welcome you to today's session of the Budgetary Control Committee. I want to ask you if there is any objection to the order of business, and that's not the case. My announcements are very short. There is interpretation in the languages that you know, and there is web streaming, so you might be caught on the video, but as I'm sure most of you like this.
And then we come to item three, which is the discharge 2025, the general budget of the European Union, and this time, the European Parliament's part. I'm very grateful that Mr Lupo, our rapporteur, is here, that the shadows are there, and I'm also happy to welcome five directors-general of the European Parliament: for DG PERS, Ellen Robson; for DG INLO, Anna Grybowska; for DG FINS, Didier Klethi; for DG INLO, Christian Mangold later; and for DG ITEC, Lorenzo Mannelli later. These five DGs have been selected as the biggest, based on the size of their budget, and that's to underline that the discharge exercise is focused on budgetary relevance for the year under review. These five DGs account together for 93.4% of the total EU budget, and I can't hide to you that some of you are under specific review of MEPs that feel personally linked to you. In contrast to last year, we hold these exchanges of views per director-general, which allows for a clearer presentation of each DG's achievements in this year, and a more straightforward question and answer.
Each director-general will therefore have five minutes to present the main achievements and attention points for 2025, followed by questions starting with our rapporteur Mr Lupo, and then the other question and answer session will be divided. So first, it's up to Director-General for Personnel Ms Robson. A warm welcome to you, and I would like to give you the floor to kick this off. Thank you very much.
02:05 - 02:23
Speaker 1
Good morning and thank you, Chair. Good morning Chair, members, colleagues. Thank you for having me. I'm aware that I should be brief, so I'll run through 2025 rather quickly and would, of course, be happy to come back to any of the issues in questions you may have later. First of all, a few figures.
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