The new architecture proposed by the European Commission for the 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework (see EUROPE 13682/1) does not make it easy to distribute the texts in the European Parliament, where the committees are trying to reach agreement before final validation by the Conference of Presidents of the political groups (COP).
The distribution proposed by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, was discussed at the Conference of Committee Chairs on Tuesday 9 September.
The general regulation of the MFF, own resources and the budget monitoring and performance framework should be the responsibility of the Budget and Budgetary Control Committees. Roberta Metsola has proposed the following distribution for the new pillars of the MFF, according to a document consulted by Agence Europe: the ‘European Competitiveness Fund’ to the Committee on Industry (ITRE) and the ‘Global Europe Fund’ to the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and Committee on Development (DEVE). The BUDG Committee has requested shared responsibility for the latter. The committees have until Friday 12 September to respond.
On the other hand, the President of the Parliament did not take a position on national plans and is awaiting a recommendation from the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs, Bernd Lange (S&D, German). Several committees responded. A source tells us that “no decision was taken” at Tuesday’s meeting of the Conference of Committee Chairs. They were not be in favour of setting up a temporary committee. According to our source, national plans “normally come under the sectoral legal bases”, which would imply a “co-decision procedure” between several committees. (Original version in French by Florent Servia)