# Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council

European Parliament procedure 2024/2021(DEC) (DEC - Discharge procedure, 10th term, committee AFCO / CONT). Stage: Procedure completed. 96 committee amendments tabled by 20 Members between 2024-12-12 and 2025-09-10.

## What the amendments focus on

This discharge dossier concerns the 2023 implementation of the EU general budget for the European Council and the Council. The amendments assert Parliament's prerogative to grant discharge under the Treaty, deplore the Council's continued refusal to cooperate with the discharge procedure for over a decade and the resulting harm to transparency and accountability, and debate unanimity voting, a Treaty revision and the Council's appointment of Court of Auditors members.

## Most active Members on this file

| Member | Country | Group | Amendments | Markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pasquale TRIDICO | Italy | GUE/NGL | 19 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/257133.md |
| Damian BOESELAGER | Germany | Verts/ALE | 18 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197439.md |
| Csaba MOLNÁR | Hungary | S&D | 16 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124722.md |
| Eero HEINÄLUOMA | Finland | S&D | 16 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197800.md |
| Tamás DEUTSCH | Hungary | PfE | 13 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/96826.md |
| Marit MAIJ | Netherlands | S&D | 10 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/91636.md |
| Andrey KOVATCHEV | Bulgaria | PPE | 8 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/97968.md |
| Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ | Czechia | PPE | 6 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/124713.md |
| Nikolas FARANTOURIS | Greece | GUE/NGL | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256823.md |
| Anthony SMITH | France | GUE/NGL | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256910.md |
| Jean-Paul GARRAUD | France | PfE | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197628.md |
| Alexandre VARAUT | France | PfE | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/5736.md |
| Virginie JORON | France | PfE | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197627.md |
| Julien SANCHEZ | France | PfE | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/88552.md |
| Ondřej KNOTEK | Czechia | PfE | 5 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197528.md |

## Official source documents

- PE766.886: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/AFCO-AM-766886_EN.pdf
- PE768.134: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CONT-AM-768134_EN.pdf
- PE776.943: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/CONT-AM-776943_EN.pdf

Full amendment texts, votes and exports: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2024-2021-DEC · machine-readable: https://amendeu.com/data/dossiers/2024-2021-DEC.json

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