Draft amending budget no 3 to the general budget 2025 - Adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updates

Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Auke Zijlstra

8. Takes note of the Removed: adjustments of the Union contribution to Added: proposed adjustments to the Union’s contribution to the various decentralised agencies; Removed: considers these adjustments mostly technical in nature; welcomes them in as far as they optimise the use of resources under the operational lines, such as LIFE, AMIF or the Single Market Programme; regrets, however, that the underlying reason for ‘returning’ commitment and payment appropriations from the respective agency lines to the related programme lines is a delay in the recruitment of staff or a delay in the roll-out of new policy and legislative initiatives such as Retail Investment Strategy (which concerns ESMA and EIOPA), the Asylum and Migration Pact (which concerns the EUAA), the maritime safety package (which concerns EMSA) or the proposal on new genomic techniques (which concerns EFSA); Added: stresses that these adjustments, presented as purely technical, in fact reveal a lack of budgetary discipline and a questionable political orientation; underlines that the transfer of EUR 48 million in commitments and EUR 45 million in payments from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) to the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), officially intended to support the preparation of the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, exemplifies a costly, bureaucratic and ineffective model of migration governance, even though the mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework has already allocated an additional EUR 2 billion to this same Pact for the period 2025–2027; notes that, despite these successive budgetary increases, illegal arrivals continue to rise across the Union and the number of effective returns remains marginal; therefore considers that there is no tangible indicator demonstrating the effectiveness of AMIF and that any reinforcement of AMIF funding is unjustified;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE778.984