Source: European Parliament
As indicated in the Commission’s reply to ‘Recommendation 2 — Compile and publish information on the EU’s overall financial landscape’[1] which was partially accepted by the Commission, the Commission provides comprehensive information, in accordance with the Financial Regulation[2], on the implementation of the budget and instruments for which the Commission is accountable in a number of reports, such as: the EU consolidated Annual Accounts, the Annual Management and Performance Report (AMPR), working documents attached to the draft budget in accordance with Article 41 of the Financial Regulation and the report prepared based on Article 256 of the Financial Regulation on financial instruments, budgetary guarantees, financial assistance and contingent liabilities.
In addition, the Commission compiles, in line with Article 16 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020[3], an annual report, covering some instruments which are outside the Commission’s remit of reporting, and based on publicly available information[4].
Instruments which are outside the scope of the EU budget, or which do not enter in the accounts of the EU, or, for some, are outside the Treaties, or for which there is no publicly available document, do not fall within the remit of the Commission’s powers to implement the EU budget and are therefore of a very different nature.
Due to the different logic of such instruments which are outside of the budget, the Commission has not carried out a simulation as referred to by the Honourable Member.
- [1] https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECAReplies/COM-Replies-SR-23-05/COM-Replies-SR-23-05_EN.pdf
- [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1046
- [3] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32020Q1222(01)
- [4] https://commission.europa.eu/publications/2023-budgetary-transparency-report_en