Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2025 – Section I – European Parliament

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Paragraph 16 a (new)

   Tabled by Francisco Guerreiro · Verts/ALE

   Added: 16a. Regrets that the call by plenary to introduce a cooling-off period for former Members equal to the time during which they receive a transitional allowance during which they cannot engage in lobbying or representational activities with Parliament was not taken up and calls for this to be urgently rectified;

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Paragraph 16 b (new)

   Tabled by Francisco Guerreiro · Verts/ALE

   Added: 16b. Believes no General Expenditure Allowance should be paid to former Members; calls therefore for the deletion of Article 42, subparagraph 4, of the Implementing Measures of the Members' Statute as a matter of urgency;

3. Amendment 3Rejected

   Paragraph 27 a (new)

   Tabled by Younous Omarjee, Manu Pineda, Marc Botenga +2 · The Left

   Added: 27a. Highlights that subcontracting cleaning, catering, crèches and travel agency services puts people, mainly women, in an extremely vulnerable position; calls for the internalisation of cleaning, catering, crèches and travel agency staff as soon as possible;

4. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 27 b (new)

   Tabled by Sandra Pereira, João Pimenta Lopes, José Gusmão +3 · The Left

   Added: 27b. Notes with concern the decision of the company managing the Parliament crèche in Brussels to terminate its contract; highlights that the continuous changes of contractors bring uncertainty for the staff, the children and their parents and increase health and safety risks; calls for Parliament to ensure the proper functioning of the crèche thereby protecting the staff, ensuring decent working conditions and fair remuneration, and the quality of the services and to take the necessary steps to allow for the crèche staff to be directly employed by Parliament;

5. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 27 c (new)

   Tabled by José Gusmão, Anabela Rodrigues, Younous Omarjee · The Left

   Added: 27c. Reiterates that any new calls for tenders should take into account the guidance on socially responsible public procurement recently adopted at the European Parliament.

6. Amendment 6Adopted

   Paragraph 27 b (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira · The Left

   Added: Calls for a genuine commitment to achieving the principle of multilingualism; to this end, calls for an increase in funding for the European Parliament’s translation and interpretation services, ensuring that their staff members are recruited to established internal European Parliament posts;

7. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 27 b (new)

   Tabled by João Pimenta Lopes, Sandra Pereira · The Left

   Added: Calls for a genuine commitment to achieving the principle of multilingualism; to this end, calls for an increase in funding for the European Parliament’s translation and interpretation services, ensuring that their staff members are recruited to established internal European Parliament posts;

8. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 3 a (new)

   Tabled by Joachim Kuhs, Valentino Grant, Eric Minardi · ID

   Added: 3a. Stresses that savings are firmly required and deplores the fact that Parliament’s budget has increased steadily year on year during the last parliamentary terms; calls, therefore, for Parliament to set as the main objective for its own budget the curbing of its own costs as much as possible and seeking significant savings, in order to send out a message of solidarity to Union citizens