Resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision on the financing of the annual action plan in favour of the United Republic of Tanzania for 2026
The European Parliament adopted a resolution objecting to the draft Commission implementing decision on the financing of the annual action plan in favour of the United Republic of Tanzania for 2026.
In November 2025, the Commission suspended the process for the adoption of the draft implementing decision on the financing of the annual action plan in favour of the United Republic of Tanzania for 2025 due to concerns expressed by the European Parliament. On 20 May 2026, the revised draft Commission implementing decision was presented to the NDICI Committee.
The revised draft Commission implementing decision maintains the same overall amount and broadly the same actions as the previous draft decision, while proposing that the implementation should mainly take place through indirect management rather than direct budget support to the Tanzanian authorities.
Furthermore, the Tanzanian national commission of inquiry investigating the violence surrounding the elections on 29 October 2025 acknowledged on 23 April 2026 that at least 518 people had died, but failed to identify those responsible, thereby impeding accountability and justice for the victims, and did not make its findings public. The Tanzanian authorities also refused the visit of a delegation from the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights in May 2026.
The Tanzanian government has failed to fulfil any of the demands put forward by the European Parliament in its resolutions of 8 May and 27 November 2025, including, inter alia, calls for the immediate and unconditional release of opposition members, for improvements in the human rights situation, and for the establishment of an independent and impartial international commission of inquiry to investigate the post-electoral violence.
On this basis, Parliament considered that the draft Commission implementing decision exceeds the implementing powers provided for in Regulation (EU) 2021/947 and that it is not consistent with Union law, in that it is incompatible with the aim of Regulation (EU) 2021/947.
It considered that the draft Commission implementing decision does not adequately take into account the concerns expressed by the European Parliament in its resolution of 27 November 2025.
Moreover, Members regretted the fact that the Commission did not suspend, once again, the adoption process of the draft implementing decision upon being informed of the concerns by the European Parliament. It deplored the lack of consideration shown by the Commission and EEAS for concerns expressed by the European Parliament in its resolutions relating to Tanzania.
Therefore, Parliament called on the Commission to withdraw its draft implementing decision and to submit a new draft to the committee, while ensuring that any new changes do not adversely affect the inclusive provision of basic services to the population, the protection of human rights and democracy or support to civil society organisations.