Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast)

What it is

to revise the Financial Regulation to align it with the MFF package (recast). PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: the Financial Regulation lays down the principles and general financial rules for establishing and implementing the EU budget and controlling EU finances. The 2018 Financial Regulation is the result of a major revision, incorporating the previous Rules of Application into a single rulebook. The revision increased flexibility, simplified financial rules considerably and paved the way for the proposals under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF). The Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Budgetary Control jointly adopted the report by Nils UŠAKOVS (S&D, LV) and Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (recast). The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows: The Commission and the Member States should ensure, in the implementation of the Union's budget, respect for the values on which the Union is founded and for fundamental rights, including non-discrimination, as well as respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Where budgetary commitments are decommitted in any financial year after the year in which they were made as a result of the total or partial non-implementation of the actions for which they were earmarked, Members proposed that the appropriations corresponding to such decommitments should be made available again to the benefit of the budget line of origin, without prejudice to pre-agreed national envelopes, where applicable. The Commission should report annually, no later than 30 September, to the European Parliament and to the Council on the aggregated information and figures on the recipients of funds, contractors, sub-contractors and the beneficial owners, across different Union funded projects and programmes implemented in the preceding financial year. That information should, having due regard to the protection of personal data, be made available to any persons or organisations that can demonstrate a legitimate interest. All new communication efforts should make the citizens' connection to the budget more visible by using the statements ‘Funded by the people of the European Union’ or ‘Co-funded by the people of the European Union’ next to the emblem of the Union. Interinstitutional procurement, joint procurement and procurement on behalf of Member States Where appropriate, two or more Member States may mandate a Union institution, Union body or executive agency (‘mandated contracting authority’) to act as a central purchasing body to procure on behalf of the Member States or in their own name, under certain conditions. Where the Commission is empowered, in relevant basic acts, to borrow funds on…

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