Source: European Parliament
EU funds allocated to development assistance are implemented in accordance with the principle of transparency enshrined in the Financial Regulation applicable to the EU Budget[1].
Detailed information on amounts funded are available in the Financial Annexes of the report on the Implementation of the EU’s External Action Instruments that the Commission publishes on a yearly basis[2]. These annexes provide a breakdown of the development assistance funding across multiple dimensions. In particular:
— Table 3B provides a breakdown of disbursements by Instrument and responsible Directorate-General (DG International Partnerships vs. other services).
— Table 5B provides a breakdown of disbursements made by thematic area/ sector being targeted (e.g. health, education, population policies, humanitarian aid) and the responsible Directorate-General.
— Table 6B provides a breakdown of disbursements made by country/region and the responsible Directorate-General.
— Table 8B provides a breakdown of disbursements made by country/region and thematic area/sector.
— Table 13B provides a breakdown of disbursements made by type of contribution (e.g. contribution to a project, contribution to an NGO, etc…).
Information on EU budget funding (with the exception of programmes under shared management[3]) awarded to specific recipients, such as European media outlets and think tanks, is publicly available through the centralised Financial Transparency System (FTS) web page[4].
This tool provides information at individual project level (e.g. nature of the measure, committed amount, project start & end date, funding instrument, responsible Directorate-General) allowing to conduct searches across multiple dimension (e.g. name of the think tank, year of funding, beneficiary country).
- [1] Article 38 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj/eng.
- [2] For 2023’s activity, the Financial Annexes can be found in Section 8 of the Commission Staff Working Document (SWD(2024) 267 final) accompanying the 2024 Annual Report on the implementation of the European Union’s External Action Instruments in 2023 (COM(2024) 548 final): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=SWD:2024:267:FIN; https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/bfc002cc-bdca-11ef-91ed-01aa75ed71a1/language-en#:~:text=This%20is%20the%20staff%20working%20document%20accompanying%20the,international%20partnerships%2C%20humanitarian%20aid%2C%20foreign%20policy%20and%20enlargement.
- [3] Funding implemented through shared management represents less than 2% of the total volume of development aid, and mostly relates to interregional cooperation projects in EU border regions (e.g. transport, connectivity).
- [4] https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget_en.