Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Commission

Tabled by Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez

Added: 86 a. Expresses its concern at the thousands of annual recourses to consultancy firms, totalling hundreds of millions of euros which cannot be quantified with certainty, for services which are not detailed or which do not fall within the Commission's system of financial transparency; - Recalls the McKinsey case in France during the COVID crisis and the suspicions of related conflicts of interest7a; - Fears the revelation of a new scandal about it; notes, for example, the obscure consultancy mission of EUR 3.2 million7b allocated to PwC for ‘building knowledge and exchanging experience: support to regions to address the division of talent and mitigate the challenges related to the decline of the tertiary-educated population’; - Is concerned that administrative tasks in the public interest are entrusted to private companies, as shown by the selection or screening of Bauhaus projects for the competent authorities, entrusted by DG REGIO to another firm for EUR 4 million in 20267c; 7a https://www.senat.fr/rap/r21-578-1/r21-578-124.html#toc363 7b 3 230 011.2 euros according to the data mentioned in the financial transparency system (https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/index_fr.html) 7c https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/715301-2025

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.213