Draft amending budget no 2 to the general budget 2025 - Update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

1. Amendment 1ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 4 a (new)
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   4 a. Regrets the lack of proposals from the Commission to reduce Union expenditure, particularly in the operating costs of administrations; considers it urgent to adopt an austerity plan that will enable the Union to reduce its debt without increasing the tax burden on taxpayers;

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2. Amendment 2ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 4 b (new)
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   4 b. Considers that the adoption of “own resources” for the European Union, which smacks of federalist ulterior motives, would encourage the pursuit of irresponsible, reckless spending;

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3. Amendment 3ESNMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 4 c (new)
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   4 c. Considers it essential to maintain the principle that windfall gains and unspent amounts are returned to Member States at the end of the financial year;

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4. Amendment 4PfEMotion for a resolution · Recital B
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   B. whereas Draft amending budget No 2/2025 entails a revision of the own resources forecasts in relation to customs duties, which are 1% below the May 2024 forecast, in relation to the capped VAT base, which is 2,4 % below the May 2024 forecast, in relation to non-recycled plastic packaging waste, which is down 3,5 % compared to the May 2024 forecast, and in relation to the total EU GNI base, which is 0,5 % higher than the May 2024 forecast,

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   B. whereas Draft amending budget No 2/2025 entails a revision of the own resources forecasts in relation to customs duties, which are 1% below the May 2024 forecast, in relation to the capped VAT base, which is 2,4 % below the May 2024 forecast, in relation to non-recycled plastic packaging waste, which is down 3,5 % compared to the May 2024 forecast, and in relation to the total EU GNI base, which is 0,5 % higher than the May 2024 forecast, which demonstrates misleading and imprudent budgetary forecasts,

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5. Amendment 5PfEMotion for a resolution · Recital C
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   C. whereas Draft amending budget No 2/2025 also updates the 2025 United Kingdom contribution pursuant to the withdrawal agreement, which stands at EUR 1,53 billion, a modest reduction of EUR 25 million compared to the estimate included in the 2025 budget,

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   C. whereas Draft amending budget No 2/2025 also updates the 2025 United Kingdom contribution pursuant to the withdrawal agreement, which stands at EUR 1,53 billion, a modest reduction of EUR 25 million compared to the estimate included in the 2025 budget, which once again demonstrates that the initial budgetary forecast was overly optimistic and therefore imprudent and misleading,

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6. Amendment 6PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 5 a (new)
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   5 a. Recalls the findings of Special Report 18/2025 of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) on the budgetary flexibility of the Union; stresses that the identification and analysis of needs were not sufficient, that the current framework remains overly complex due to the proliferation of overlapping instruments and the lack of a clearly established order of use, and that certain tools were systematically exhausted in the first years of the MFF, thereby reducing their availability for subsequent years; calls on the Commission to simplify the flexibility framework, to clarify the existing instruments, and to strengthen the transparency and documentation of the choices made when mobilising marg…

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7. Amendment 7PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 10
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   10. Welcomes Bulgaria’s progress towards the introduction of the Euro and fully supports additional means to accompany the currency changeover with suitable and targeted communication activities; acknowledges that due to the absence of unallocated margin in Heading 2b, the Flexibility Instrument must be mobilised for this purpose;

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   10. Takes note of Bulgaria’s progress towards the introduction of the Euro; regrets that the additional appropriations foreseen for the Economic and Monetary Union for Bulgaria’s accession to the euro and for the European Anti-Money Laundering Authority are financed by means of increased national contributions rather than through better budgetary discipline and a reallocation of existing expenditure;

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