Date: 2025-10-08Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: Europe
Decision (EU) 2025/1591 of the European Parliament of 7 May 2025 on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2023
**Executive Summary**
This document is a Decision (EU) 2025/1591 of the European Parliament, dated 7 May 2025, concerning the discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the ninth, tenth, and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2023. The decision grants the Commission discharge in respect of the budget implementation. The President is instructed to forward the decision and resolution to relevant EU bodies.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Decision:**
* The European Parliament grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2023.
* The Parliament's observations are detailed in a separate resolution.
* **Instructions:**
* The President of the European Parliament is instructed to forward the decision and the associated resolution to:
* The Council
* The Commission
* The Court of Auditors
* The European Investment Bank
* The President is further instructed to arrange for the publication of the decision and resolution in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).
**Impact Analysis**
**European Commission**
* **Impact:** The Commission is granted discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget for the relevant European Development Funds.
* **Action Required:** Review the observations in the resolution and take appropriate actions.
**Council, Court of Auditors, European Investment Bank**
* **Impact:** Informed of the decision.
* **Action Required:** Review the decision and resolution.
**President of the European Parliament**
* **Impact:** Responsible for formal communication.
* **Action Required:** Forward the decision and resolution to the specified bodies and arrange for publication in the Official Journal.
Key Entities Referenced
European Development Funds: Funds dedicated to providing assistance to African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) states and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs).
European Parliament: The legislative branch of the European Union, responsible for granting discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget.
Commission: The executive branch of the European Union, responsible for implementing the budget.
Court of Auditors: Audits EU finances, including the European Development Funds, and provides a statement of assurance.
ACP-EU Partnership Agreement: A framework for cooperation and development assistance between the European Union and African, Caribbean, and Pacific states.
Official Journal EN
of the European Union L series
2025/1591 8.10.2025
DECISION(EU) 2025/1591 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
of 7 May 2025
on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ninth, tenth and eleventh
European Development Funds for the financial year 2023
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,
— having regard to the financial statements and revenue and expenditure accounts for ninth, tenth and eleventh
European Development Funds for the financial year 2023 (COM(2024)0273 – C10-0081/2024)(1),
— having regard to the financial information on the European Development Funds (COM(2024)0273),
— having regard to the Court of Auditors’ annual report on the activities funded by the ninth, tenth and eleventh
European Development Funds for the financial year 2023, together with the Commission’s replies(2),
— having regard to the statement of assurance(3)as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and regularity of the
underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors for the financial year 2023, pursuant to Article 287 of the
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
— having regard to the Council’s recommendations of 17 February 2025 on discharge to be given to the Commission in respect
of the implementation of the operations of the European Development Funds for the financial year 2023 (05489/2025 –
C10-0027/2025, 05490/2025 – C10-0028/2025, 05491/2025 – C10-0029/2025),
— having regard to the Commission’s report on the follow-up to the discharge for the 2022 financial year (COM(2024)
0267),
— having regard to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of
States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou
(Benin) on 23 June 2000(4)and amended in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on 22 June 2010(5),
— having regard to Council Decision (EU) 2021/1764 of 5 October 2021 on the association of the Overseas Countries
and Territories with the European Union including relations between the European Union on the one hand, and
Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark on the other (Decision on the Overseas Association, including
Greenland)(6),
— having regard to Article 33 of the Internal Agreement of 20 December 1995 between the representatives of the
Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the financing and administration of the
Community aid under the Second Financial Protocol to the fourth ACP-EC Convention(7),
— having regard to Article 32 of the Internal Agreement of 18 September 2000 between Representatives of the
Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the Financing and Administration of
Community Aid under the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between the African, Caribbean and
Pacific States and the European Community and its Member States signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000 and
the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty
applies(8),
— having regard to Article 11 of the Internal Agreement of 24 and 26 June 2013 between the Representatives of the
Governments of the Member States of the European Union, meeting within the Council, on the financing of
European Union aid under the multiannual financial framework for the period 2014 to 2020 in accordance with the
ACP-EU Partnership Agreement and on the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and
Territories to which Part Four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union applies(9),
(1) OJ C, C/2024/5462, 10.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5462/oj.
(2) OJ C, C/2024/5882, 9.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/5882/oj.
(3) OJ C, C/2024/6041, 10.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6041/oj.
(4) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/2003/159/oj.
(5) OJ L 287, 4.11.2010, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/2010/648/oj.
(6) OJ L 355, 7.10.2021, p. 6, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2021/1764/oj.
(7) OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_eums/1998/363/oj.
(8) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 355, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_eums/2000/770/oj.
(9) OJ L 210, 6.8.2013, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_eums/2013/806/oj.
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— having regard to Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
— having regard to Article 74 of the Financial Regulation of 16 June 1998 applicable to development finance
cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention(10),
— having regard to Article 119 of the Financial Regulation of 27 March 2003 applicable to the 9th European
Development Fund(11),
— having regard to Article 50 of Council Regulation (EC) No 215/2008 of 18 February 2008 on the Financial
Regulation applicable to the 10th European Development Fund(12),
— having regard to Article 44 of Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1877 of 26 November 2018 on the financial regulation
applicable to the 11th European Development Fund, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2015/323(13),
— having regard to Rule 101 and the third indent of Rule 102 of, and Annex V to, its Rules of Procedure,
— having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Development,
— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A10-0074/2025),
1. Grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ninth, tenth and eleventh
European Development Funds for the financial year 2023;
2. Sets out its observations in the resolution below;
3. Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution forming an integral part of it to the Council, the
Commission, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and to arrange for their publication in the
Official Journal of the European Union(L series).
The President The Secretary-General
Roberta METSOLA Alessandro CHIOCCHETTI
(10) OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_financ/1998/430/oj.
(11) OJ L 83, 1.4.2003, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_financ/2003/401/oj.
(12) OJ L 78, 19.3.2008, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2008/215/oj.
(13) OJ L 307, 3.12.2018, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2018/1877/oj.
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