Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Hungary to strengthen Rule of Law and its budgetary implications

Tabled by Patryk Jaki

9. Removed: Insists that the measures required for the release of EU funding, as defined by the relevant decisions taken Added: Calls for the immediate disbursement of EU funding to Hungary, under the Common Provisions Regulation12 (CPR), the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Regulation13 and the Rule of Law Conditionality Removed: Regulation, must be assessed in a coherent manner as an integral package and that no payments should be made even if progress is made in one or more areas but deficiencies still persist in another; stresses that it is incomprehensible to release funds under the CPR citing improvements to the independence of the judiciary, while funds under the RRF and the conditionality mechanism remain blocked due to ongoing deficiencies pertaining to the independence of the judiciary; Added: Regulation; calls on the Commission to make available without further delay all EU funds to which Hungary and its citizens are entitled and to cease withholding funds as a means of ideological censure; condemns the actions of the Commission, which withholds EU funds owed to Member States by ordering them to meet milestones, only to then unblock the funding despite the failure to meet those milestones, simply because the government has changed, as happened in the case of Poland; urges the Commission to treat all Member States equally; ________________________ 12 Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE760.687v01-00