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

Tabled by Auke Zijlstra, Julien Sanchez

… contribution to various decentralised agencies; considers these adjustments mostly technical in nature; Removed: 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: brings into memory the recent funding scandal concerning LIFE, involving NGO-contracts; points to the Second report on discharge in respect of the implementation of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023 (2024/2030(DEC)) reporting on the structural problems at the EUAA (asylum agency);

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