Committee on Budgetary Control Ordinary meeting

10 November 2026

CONT European Parliament

Ihren Sitzungen folgen
00:03 - 02:19
PPE Député européen
President | Commission du contrôle budgétaire
Andreas Schwab
So good afternoon colleagues, welcome back.  We now move on to the first item of the afternoon, namely the hearings with representatives of other institutions in the framework of the discharge procedure for the year 2025.  A warm welcome to the European Court of Auditors' representative today, Petri Sarvamaa.  He's replacing Pierre Moscovici, who has been giving up his role at the Court and therefore Petri Sarvamaa will speak to us.  I also would like to thank you for your written replies to our questionnaire, who has been done by our rapporteur and by our colleagues. 

And I would also like to thank this year's rapporteur for the work so far.  For the 2025 discharge and the other of the other institutions, the ECR Group has shared the responsibility among three members: Joachim Brudziński for the Council, Court of Justice and EESC, Committee of the Regions and the EDPS, Dick Erixon for the Court of Auditors and the European Ombudsman, and Șerban Sturza for the EPPO.  I see two of you.  Mr Sturza will probably then join us, hopefully when it's time.  Unfortunately, the Council has once again declined both to attend today's hearing and to reply to our questionnaire. 

Parliament has not granted discharge to the Council for any financial year since 2009.  We remain open to dialogue and hope to overcome this longstanding issue.  Citizens rightly expect transparency and accountability from all EU institutions.  As in previous years, colleagues, these hearings are split into the two sub-sessions, the first one with the institutions that are based in Luxembourg, but there is no geo-discrimination, it's just an organizational issue, and the second one with the other institutions.  And therefore, we will begin now with the presentation by the European Court of Auditors. 

In each session, representatives of the respective institution will then make brief opinion opening statements, five minutes, maybe even a bit less, followed by questions of our colleagues.  And like that, ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy to pass the floor now to Petri Sarvamaa for the Court of Auditors.  Over to you. 

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