General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 - all sections

Tabled by Christine Anderson, Milan Uhrík, Marcin Sypniewski, Alexander Jungbluth

Added: 34a. Notes the European Ombudsman’s findings and suggestions for improvement concerning the Commission’s handling and preservation of text messages1a; stresses that effective scrutiny of the Union budget requires reliable records of Commission decision-making; calls on the Commission, including its President, Members and their Cabinets, to stop using automatic deletion for messages concerning Commission business unless a complete and readable copy has first been securely preserved in an official records repository; insists that this apply irrespective of the device, account or messaging service used; calls for messages covered by requests for public access to be preserved throughout the handling of those requests and any subsequent review, irrespective of internal registration criteria; underlines that preservation does not entail automatic disclosure and that confidentiality and data-protection safeguards continue to apply; 1a European Ombudsman, Recommendation of 3 June 2026 in case 2482/2025/NH, including the accompanying suggestions for improvement: https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommendation/en/226853

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.355