Procedure

Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - European Public Prosecutors Office (the ‘EPPO’)

2025/2155(DEC)·10th term·CONT / LIBE·DEC

Summary

A discharge decision on the implementation of the 2024 general budget of the EU concerning the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). The amendments note increases in crime reports and cross-border VAT fraud cases, describe the EPPO as structurally underfunded and understaffed, discuss reviewing its mandate and possible extension of competence, cooperation with Europol, Eurojust and OLAF, autonomous digital systems, and the enlargement to Poland and Sweden.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
29 Oct 2025 – 28 Jan 2026
Plenary vote — Adopted
29 Apr 2026 · On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committees

29 Oct 2025 – 28 Jan 2026

Dates

Plenary votes

2 roll-call votes

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29 Apr 2026Rejected
On amendment 2 · text to be inserted after paragraph 63
Official label: Après le § 63 - Am 2 · what was voted ↗
206 for272 against169 abstentions72 did not vote
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29 Apr 2026Main voteAdopted
On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole
Official label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗
454 for161 against29 abstentions75 did not vote
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Plenary amendments3 tabled on this text

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.

Amendment 1ECRMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 62 a (new)
Amendment
62 a. Notes with grave concern the unprecedented levels of fraud reported during the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the lack of transparency within public institutions and instances of mismanagement of Union funds; emphasises that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), in its Activity Report for 2023, continued to highlight numerous cases of fraud related to funds allocated in response to the pandemic, and that its subsequent reports for 2024 and 2025 indicate that investigations into COVID-19-related fraud remain ongoing; stresses the urgent need to bring full clarity to these matters as swiftly as possible; calls, therefore, for complete transparency regarding vaccine contracts, inc…
Excerpt — full text in the official PDF.
official amendment document ↗
Amendment 2ECRMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 63 a (new)
Amendment
63 a. Calls for an immediate investigation into the Commission’s use of public funds to finance a shadow lobby group promoting its own green policies; stresses that lobbying should be transparent, with full disclosure of all parties involved;
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Amendment 3PfEMotion for a resolution · Paragraph 68 a (new)
Amendment
68 a. Notes with concern that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office has not communicated any substantive outcome of the investigation into the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine yet;
official amendment document ↗