Answer for question E-001011/25

EN E-001011/2025 Answer given by Mr Serafin on behalf of the European Commission (23.6.2025) The Commission would kindly refer the Honourable Member to the publicly available Financial Transparency System (FTS)1 and the attached Annex I. On the FTS, the Commission makes available information on recipients of funds financed from the EU budget, where it is implemented in direct management. Operating grants are awarded competitively. Applicants submit proposals with the description of their work programmes, annexed to the grant agreement, which may mention, among other activities, advocacy activities. The Commission does not prescribe the specific activities in the applicants’ work programmes. Nonetheless, agreements involving activities directed at EU institutions, even if they do not breach the legal framework, may entail reputational risks for the EU. To mitigate these risks, the Commission has issued guidance2 to all Commission services, clarifying which activities should not be mandated as a condition for EU financing. As part of a grant agreement, beneficiaries must commit to respecting EU values. The Commission does not have a general responsibility for monitoring the Member States’ funding from the national budgets to civil society organisations. For EU funding under shared management, based on the requirement of Article 49(3) of the Common Provisions Regulation3 (CPR), a complete list of projects is publicly available on the responsible Hungarian authority’s...