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The European Commission says the rule of law conditionality mechanism adopted in the context of the EU budget and recovery fund is in line with the July agreement of the leaders of member states, the MTI said the committee’s chief spokesperson. of the EU at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
In the opinion of the EU committee, the mechanism is focused on protecting the European Union budget and has the means to ensure the fair and just application of the mechanism, said Erik Mamer. The Court of Justice of the European Union will have jurisdiction in any measure adopted by virtue of a regulation adopted for the protection of the budget.
The EU treaties also provide for the so-called Plan B in the event that the final adoption of the EU’s seven-year framework budget from 2021 fails. In the absence of an agreement on the multiannual financial framework, the contract will provide for continued validity one-twelfth of the prior year’s budget amount on a monthly basis. The EU committee is preparing “technically” for this possibility, a Commission spokesman said.
However, the priority, of course, is to put in place a seven-year framework budget and implement a fund to repair the damage caused by the coronavirus epidemic as soon as possible, early next year, added an EU spokesperson, according to the MTI.
In July, the European Council of EU leaders agreed on a budget of 1.8 billion euros for the next seven-year EU budget and a fund to repair the damage caused by the coronavirus epidemic. However, the agreement was not approved by the European Parliament (EP). The panel has not funded several EU programs and envisages the introduction of a conditionality mechanism to examine the rule of law in the EU budget and recovery fund in order to protect EU funds.
In early November, the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union and European Parliament negotiators reached an interim agreement on the establishment of a new set of political conditions linked to the EU budget, including the need to comply with the status of right. Rule of law conditionality could be part of the next framework budget, as well as the recovery package.
However, the decision on the budget and the recovery package, which requires unanimity, was not decided at the meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the EU member states to the European Union in mid-November due to the veto of two member states. from the EU, Hungary and Poland, wrote the MTI.
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