Draft amending budget No 3/2025

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 3/2025, COM(2025) 850 – 3 October 2025
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The purpose of Draft Amending Budget (DAB) No 3 for the year 2025 is to update both the expenditure and revenue side of the budget.

The proposed changes on the expenditure side of the budget concern the following elements:

1. An increase in the level of payment appropriations for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for an amount of  EUR 2 billion, for the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) for an amount of EUR 0,7 billion and for the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) for an amount of EUR 357 million. These amounts could not be included in the redeployments proposed in the ‘Global transfer’ (DEC 15/2025) submitted to Parliament and Council on 3 October 2025;
2. An update of the needs for the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs), taking into account the latest developments;
3. A decrease in commitment and payment appropriations for the Customs Control Equipment Instrument (CCEI) due to delays in implementation in the Member States;
4. A decrease in commitments for the Technical Support Instrument due to efficiency gains from competitive procurement procedures;
5. A decrease in payment appropriations for the Ukraine Facility as the 2025 payment profile has been impacted by changes to assumptions such as in the pace of implementation of reforms and investments, the date of signature of guarantee and blending agreements, and the timing of the payment of the borrowing costs subsidies;
6. An adjustment of the EU contribution to several decentralised agencies, linked to implementation or other specific reasons, as follows:

• A decrease of the commitment and payment appropriations allocated to the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), as a significant number of the staff that AMLA has recruited will only take up post towards the end of 2025;
• A return of commitment and payment appropriations by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) because of delays in the adoption of the Retail investment strategy;
• An increase in commitment and payment appropriations for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to cover the financial impact of exchange rate fluctuations;
• A decrease in commitment and payment appopriations allocated to the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA), due to the fact that EUAA’s activities to support the implementation of the Pact on Migration and Asylum will now only start in 2026. The returned commitment and payment appropriations will be transferred to the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMIF) Thematic Facility to support AMIF’s own activities in implementing the Pact and to cover an increased need for payment appropriations as a result of higher-than-expected interim payments to Member States;
• A return of commitment and payment appropriations to the programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE) by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Environment Agency (EEA). This is due to delays in the adoption of the proposals on Integrated Water Management/Zero Pollution Package, Green Claims, Forest Monitoring and also due to reduced needs in 2025 for the early stages of the implementation of the Regulation on reattribution of tasks in the area of chemicals;
• A return of commitment and payment appropriations to the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) transport programme by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) due to delays in the adoption of the maritime safety package.
• A return of commitment and payment appropriation to the Single Market Programme (SMP) Food line) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) due to delays in the adoption of the proposal on new genomic techniques. 

Overall, the net impact of this DAB on expenditure amounts to a decrease of EUR 123,7 million in commitment appropriations and an increase of EUR 2 517,0 million in payment appropriations.

On the revenue side, this DAB incorporates an additional EUR 1 185,1 million of definitive fines and penalty payments paid until 30 September 2025 and EUR 1 300 million of the estimated TOR surplus. The overall impact on the revenue side is thus an increase in GNI contributions of EUR 31,9 million.