BUDG-CONT – Rule of Law conditionality: debate with Commissioner Hahn – 24.05.2023
25-05-2023 - 10:27
On 24 May 2023, the Committees on Budgets and on Budgetary Control jointly had an exchange of views with Commissioner Hahn on the implementation of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation.
The Committees on Budgets and on Budgetary control had invited Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Budget and Administration, to a joint meeting to update and exchange views with Members about the implementation steps taken by Hungary with regard to its remedial measures since the adoption of the Council decision of 15 December 2022 to suspend 55% (corresponding to 6.3 bn. EUR) of the budgetary commitments under three operational programmes in Cohesion Policy, and to prohibit the Commission to enter into legal commitments with public interest trusts, or any entity maintained by such public interest trusts, for programmes implemented in direct and indirect management. The Commissioner furthermore informed the Members about other relevant developments with regard to the application of the Conditionality Regulation.