The European Parliament supports new – preferably genuine – own resources. Such additional resources would allow for the financing of the EU’s priorities to be decoupled from considerations of juste retour. In its May 2023 resolution, mentioned above, Parliament requested to replace a share of the GNI-based resources with statistical own resources based on the gender pay gap, on recycling of biowaste and on food waste. In November 2023, Parliament endorsed the Commission proposals on new own resources under the consultation procedure. New genuine own resources would alleviate the pressure on national budgets. Because of Member States’ reluctance, discussions in the Council are still ongoing at a technical level. It is now expected that the European Council will look into this issue in March 2025. According to the agreed roadmap, the Council should have started in July 2022 with political deliberations on the first package of proposals. It should deliberate until 1 July 2025 at the latest, so that the new own resources can be introduced by January 2026. Modifications to the Own Resources Decision are complex and lengthy: they require unanimous adoption in the Council, after consultation of Parliament, and ratification by all EU Member States in line with their constitutional requirements.
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