Draft amending budget no 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 7 a (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Angéline Furet · PfE

   Added: 7a. Recalls that, rather than introducing new own resources, which would impose an additional and unjustified burden on citizens and businesses, it is essential to ensure the effective collection of existing own resources, a significant share of which continues to be lost as a result of fraud, under-declaration and insufficient controls;

2. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 7 b (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Angéline Furet · PfE

   Added: 7b. Recalls that, as of 31 December 2025, according to the European Public Prosecutor's Office Annual Report 2025, fraud affecting revenue, in particular VAT and customs duties, accounted for an estimated damage of EUR 45,01 billion, based solely on the estimated damage in cases subject to ongoing investigations;

3. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 7 c (new)

   Tabled by Julien Sanchez, Tomasz Buczek, Angéline Furet · PfE

   Added: 7c. Recalls that the weakness of customs controls, particularly in ports, encourages large-scale fraud and causes the Union budget to lose billions of euro every year in VAT and customs duties revenue; stresses that more systematic customs controls would generate additional revenue for the Union budget and would therefore help avoid the need to introduce new own resources;