Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Agencies

Tabled by Dick Erixon, Kristoffer Storm, Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza, Nicolas Bay, Charlie Weimers, Cristian Terheş, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński

33. Notes the progressive expansion of Removed: Europol’s Added: Europol's mandate, including recently adopted and proposed measures conferring enhanced capacities to combat … the effective implementation of those additional tasks requires a corresponding increase in Removed: Europol’s Added: Europol's human resources, but also robust internal safeguards, sufficient compliance capacity and strengthened supervisory mechanisms; observes, that Removed: Europol’s Added: Europol's budget increased by 5,78 % in 2024 compared to 2023; urges that Removed: Europol’s Added: Europol's budget be further reinforced in order to address persistent staffing shortages and … ensure that its financial resources are commensurate with its expanding responsibilities; stresses Removed: Europol’s Added: that Europol's key role in combating migrant smuggling, trafficking Removed: in human beings, Added: cross-border organised crime and terrorism is of the highest priority and these core tasks should take precedence over less urgent priorities elsewhere; underlines that Frontex must concentrate its resources on its core operational tasks, namely supporting Member States in protecting the external border of the Schengen area, combating cross-border crime and terrorism; underlines that Frontex should focus on Removed: core operations; and welcomes Frontex’s ongoing efforts to strengthen its Fundamental Rights Officer; Added: its core tasks;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.206