Amending budget No 2/2025

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 2/2025, COM(2025) 410 – 4 July 2025 
Council's position: 16/09/2025
Parliament's position: 8/10/2025

The Amending Budget (AB) No 2 for the year 2025 updates both the revenue and the expenditure side of the budget. As regards the revenue side, the update takes into account the latest developments as regards: 

• the updated own resources forecasts for the 2025 budget agreed by the Advisory Committee on Own Resources (ACOR) on 26 May 2025. This update is typically presented shortly after the ACOR forecast meeting, in line with the Member States’ expectations that the ACOR updates are budgeted as soon as possible;
• the other revenues such as fines and the United Kingdom contribution. 

As regards the expenditure side, AB 2/2025 includes the following specific elements: 

• a reinforcement of payment appropriations for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), following an acceleration of payment needs. This is driven by Member States' efforts to accelerate implementation of their CAP Strategic Plans for 2023-2027, while also finalising the closure of the previous programming period (2014-2022);
• a reinforcement in commitment appropriations for the Customs programme in Heading 1, to support the implementation of new political initiatives in the field of centralised custom systems, and a reinforcement in commitment appropriations for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in Heading 3, linked to IT investments to deliver on the simplification measures proposed by the Commission in February 2025. These reinforcements will be compensated by an equivalent reduction in commitment appropriations from the Customs Control Equipment Instrument (CCEI) in Heading 4;
• a reinforcement in commitment and payment appropriations of the Economic and Monetary Union budget line as a result of the additional needs linked to the preparations of Bulgaria joining the euro area, with the aim of co-financing euro related communication activities in Bulgaria;
• a frontloading from 2026 to 2025 of a number of posts in the establishment plan of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) to allow this newly created agency to start recruitments  without impact on the level of the contribution from the EU budget. 

Overall, the net impact of AB 2/2025 on expenditure amounts to an increase of EUR 3,3 million in commitment and EUR 3,5 billion in payment appropriations. 

Amending budget No 2/2025