Following an exchange of views with Secretary General of the European Parliament Alessandro Chiocchetti, on the follow-up to the 2022 discharge on Monday 30 September, the Committee on Budgetary Control proposed to refuse discharge for the management of the EU budget by the European Council and the EU Council for the financial year 2022.
There were 22 votes in favour of this decision, one against and one abstention. A draft resolution was adopted, regretting that “the EU Council, for more than a decade, has shown that it has no political will to cooperate with Parliament in the annual discharge procedure”.
MEPs criticised the EU Council for having “once again failed to provide Parliament with the necessary information”. They voted in favour of postponing the 2022 discharge for the EU Council budget at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday 23 April for this very reason (see EUROPE 13397/9).
The annual discharge specifically aims to hold the European institutions to account for their use of the EU budget. MEPs condemn an attitude that undermines “the management and democratic control of the EU budget“.
The decision will be put to a vote at the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg from 21 to 24 October. (Original version in French by Florent Servia)