Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European Parliament

Tabled by Julien Sanchez

… in the list of audit firms selected to audit the political groups’ Removed: accounts, regretting Added: accounts; notes that on September 4, 2025, the Committee on Budgetary Control adopted an opinion on the 2024 accounts questioning the work performed by one of the external auditors and proposing that the Bureau of the European Parliament consider taking action against that auditor; emphasises that, following this challenge, DG FINS did not conduct an audit of the 2024 accounts of all political groups, nor, moreover, of the groups audited by the same external auditor, in order to ensure that they were not affected by the same issues; recalls that the total budget allocated to all political groups amounts to nearly 65 million euros for the year 2024; consequently questions the accuracy of the accounts approved by Parliament in light of the recent calls into question regarding the quality of the work performed by external auditors selected by Parliament for the political groups; regrets the limited choice Added: of external auditors that was available; calls on the Directorate-General for Finance (DG FINS) to strive to … the direction and guidance already provided to external auditors and encourages DG Removed: FINS Added: FINS, in the interest of all, to ensure quality of the external audits that certify the accounts of …

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.024