The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report

Tabled by Tamás Deutsch, Csaba Dömötör, Viktória Ferenc, Kinga Gál, Enikő Győri, András Gyürk, György Hölvényi, András László, Ernő Schaller-Baross, Pál Szekeres, Annamária Vicsek, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella, Christophe Bay, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, Marie Dauchy, Valérie Deloge, Mélanie Disdier, Anne-Sophie Frigout, Angéline Furet, Jean-Paul Garraud, Catherine Griset, France Jamet, Virginie Joron, Fabrice Leggeri, Julien Leonardelli, Thierry Mariani, Aleksandar Nikolic, Philippe Olivier, Gilles Pennelle, Pascale Piera, Pierre Pimpie, Julie Rechagneux, André Rougé, Julien Sanchez, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Rody Tolassy, Matthieu Valet, Alexandre Varaut, Séverine Werbrouck, Paolo Borchia, Susanna Ceccardi, Anna Maria Cisint, Aldo Patriciello, Silvia Sardone, Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Roberto Vannacci, Gerolf Annemans, Barbara Bonte, Tom Vandendriessche, Nikola Bartůšek, Jaroslav Bžoch, Klara Dostalova, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Jana Nagyová, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Filip Turek, Anders Vistisen, Rachel Blom, Ton Diepeveen, Marieke Ehlers, Sebastian Kruis, Sebastiaan Stöteler, Auke Zijlstra, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Jorge Martín Frías, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Hermann Tertsch, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Tiago Moreira de Sá, António Tânger Corrêa, Vilis Krištopans, Anna Bryłka, Tomasz Buczek, Elisabeth Dieringer, Roman Haider, Gerald Hauser, Georg Mayer, Petra Steger, Harald Vilimsky

79. Removed: Expresses concern that the suspension of EU funds could be misused as a political weapon against civil society and local authorities; recalls that the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation ensures that final recipients should not lose access to EU funds if sanctions are applied to their government; calls for ‘smart conditionality’ that would enable national governments undermining the rule of law to be bypassed by allocating decommitted EU funds directly to local and regional authorities and Added: Deplores attempts to bypass national governments by introducing the notion of ‘smart conditionality’, which would violate the MFF; stresses the democratic legitimacy of Member States’ governments, as opposed to non-governmental organisations Removed: and businesses that comply with EU law, as well as by simplifying the reallocation of funds intended for the benefit of the Member State in question to other EU programmes; proposes the establishment of a transparent system for local authorities to request EU funds when national governments block or misuse EU funds; stresses the importance of strictly applying the conditionality mechanisms as enshrined in the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and in the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans in a transparent manner; Added: (NGOs) and CSOs that do not have the same legitimacy and do not contribute to the EU’s budget;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE773.958v01-00