Joint declaration of the European Parliament and the Council on financing the Union values strand in 2021

(2021/C 168 I/01)

Without prejudice to the powers of the budgetary authority, the co-legislators agree that the Union Values strand of the Citizenship, Equality, Rights and Values programme should be equipped with substantial funding from the 1st of January 2021.

The co-legislators call upon the Commission to take appropriate actions to reach that objective, especially to assess the use of flexibility instruments under the legal framework of the annual EU budget for 2021, in accordance with the activation criteria laid down in the MFF regulation.