Guidelines for the 2027 Budget - Section III

Tabled by Ruggero Razza, Carlo Fidanza, Nicola Procaccini

Added: 10a. Calls on the Commission, in the application of the principles of transparency, sound financial management and loyal cooperation between institutions, to promote a further revision of the Financial Regulation to ensure that funding awarded by the Commission or its executive agencies is not used for lobbying or advocacy activities targeted at EU institutions’ representatives with the aim of influencing decision-making processes; calls on the Commission to systematically include in its framework partnership and grant agreements an explicit prohibition clause on the direct or indirect use of EU funds for such purposes, providing for the recovery of amounts and the exclusion of beneficiaries from future funding in the event of breaches;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE782.988v01-00