European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration

The European Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration is the member of the European Commission who is responsible for negotiating and managing the EU budget. The current commissioner is Piotr Serafin.

The portfolio is primarily responsible for the management of the budget of the European Union and related financial issues except for budgetary discharge which falls under the Admin Commissioner.

The Commissioners Janusz Lewandowski was the European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget as part of the Barroso Commission II. His predecessor was Algirdas Šemeta, who in turn succeeded fellow Lithuanian Dalia Grybauskaitė. The European Parliament approved a Commissioner for Financial Programming & the Budget for the first time in 2004, a position expanded since the Prodi Commission to include Financial Programming.

The Commissioner's 121.6 billion euro 2008 budget proposed that for the first time, the budget towards sustainable growth (€57.2 billion) would be higher than that of the Common Agricultural Policy (€56.3 billion), traditionally the largest source of expenditure in the EU. There would be an increase in cohesion funds, energy and transport of 14%, research by 11% and lifelong learning by 9%. There would also be an increase in the administrative budget, aid to Kosovo and Palestinian institutions and funds towards the Galileo project.

List of commissioners #Name Country Period Commission 1 Albert Coppé 1967–1973 Malfatti Commission, Mansholt Commission 2 Wilhelm Haferkamp 1973–1977 Ortoli Commission 3 Christopher Tugendhat 1977–1985 Jenkins Commission, Thorn Commission 4 Henning Christophersen 1985–1989 Delors Commission I 5 Peter Schmidhuber 1989–1995 Delors Commission II & III 6 Erkki Liikanen 1995–1999 Santer Commission 7 Michaele Schreyer 1999–2004 Prodi Commission 8 Markos Kyprianou 2004 Prodi Commission 9 Dalia Grybauskaitė 2004–2009 Barroso Commission I 10 Algirdas Šemeta 2009–2010 Barroso Commission I 11 Janusz Lewandowski 2010–2014 Barroso Commission II 12 Jacek Dominik 2014–2014 Barroso Commission II 13 Kristalina Georgieva 2014–2016 Juncker Commission 14 Günther Oettinger 2017–2019 Juncker Commission 15 Johannes Hahn 2019–2024 Von der Leyen Commission I16 Piotr Serafin2024–presentVon der Leyen Commission II

See also Directorate-General for Budget European Union Budget

References

External links Commissioner's Website Commission Budget Website DG Budget