Commission
Discharge granted
Parliament approved the Commission’s management of the 2024 budget by 389 votes to 255, with 3 abstentions.
Budget discharge & follow-up
A clear record of how Parliament scrutinises EU budget execution, what it decided for 2024 and where to find the institutions’ replies and follow-up work.
Latest cycleFY2024
About this page & coverageBudget accountability
- What you’ll find
- A hand-maintained guide to Parliament’s budgetary discharge decisions, institutional replies and follow-up documents, with links to Parliament, Commission and Court sources.
- Coverage and limits
- The page separates the budget year under review from the year a decision or follow-up document was published. It is editorial material and is not automatically updated by the monitoring worker.
The 2024 budget discharge
Decision adopted · 29 April 2026
The vote is the newest point in the cycle. It concerns budget management in 2024; the follow-up material below concerns the previous year.
Council
Decision postponed
The Council did not cooperate with the discharge procedure, so Parliament postponed its decision on the Council’s 2024 budget.
Across the 2024 cycle: Parliament granted discharge to the other EU bodies; the Council was the exception because it did not cooperate.
Official material for this cycle
- Cycle overview: Parliament’s discharge 2024 file (opens the official source in a new tab)
- Adopted act: Commission discharge resolution, 2024 budget (2025/2145(DEC)) (opens the official source in a new tab)
- Vote context: Parliament press release on the discharge votes (opens the official source in a new tab) and plenary agenda background (opens the official source in a new tab)
Follow-up and institutional replies
Previous cycle · FY2023
These are published responses to Parliament’s FY2023 observations. They are earlier-cycle follow-up, not replies to the FY2024 decision above.
- Commission
Commission report on follow-up to the 2023 discharge (opens the official source in a new tab)
Commission report on measures taken in response to Parliament’s and the Council’s observations and recommendations.
- Court of Justice
Court of Justice follow-up to the 2023 discharge resolution (opens the official source in a new tab)
The Court reports on steps taken in response to observations concerning its own budget and administration.
- Index
Discharge 2024 overview and document index (opens the official source in a new tab)
The Parliament committee page gathers the 2024 accounts, European Court of Auditors material, Council recommendations, commissioner replies and follow-up links.
What “discharge” means
A short explainer
Budgetary discharge is Parliament’s annual political scrutiny of how EU money was managed and implemented. Parliament reviews the accounts, audit findings, recommendations and the responsible institutions’ answers before deciding whether to grant, postpone or refuse discharge.
Article 319(3) TFEU requires the Commission to take appropriate steps on observations in discharge decisions and to report on those measures when requested. The Financial Regulation sets the follow-up framework and its timetable. Read the Treaty provision (opens the official source in a new tab) and Financial Regulation 2024/2509 (opens the official source in a new tab).
It is a budget accountability process. It is separate from staff or employment procedures, and a discharge decision does not by itself establish that every irregularity has been resolved.
- EvidenceAccounts, audit findings and recommendations are assembled.
- AnswersInstitutions provide replies and supporting follow-up material.
- DecisionParliament grants, postpones or refuses discharge.
- Follow-upLater reports track responses and outstanding requests.
Timing matters: the FY2024 decision is recorded above, while the linked detailed responses here are from the FY2023 follow-up cycle. This page does not infer that a FY2024 follow-up response has already been published.
Coverage and source note
This page is a small editorial guide to official discharge material from the European Parliament, Commission and Court of Justice, checked on . The linked documents are the authority; this page summarises their status and separates the newest decision from earlier follow-up responses.