Discharge for 2015 budget – European Commission and executive agencies

During the second April 2017 (April II) plenary session of the European Parliament, MEPs were expected to decide whether to grant discharge for the 2015 financial year to the different institutions and bodies of the European Union (EU).

The debate would start with the report covering the European Commission (plus six executive agencies) which managed the biggest share of the EU general budget. Separate discharge was granted to the Commission concerning the management of the European Development Funds (EDFs), because the EDFs were not part of the general budget of the EU but based on intergovernmental agreement.

The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) recommended the plenary should grant the Commission and all six executive agencies discharge for 2015, and also to grant discharge in respect of the implementation of the operations of the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th EDFs in that year.

Author: Author: Martin Svášek

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Powers and procedures: Budgetarty powers http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/20150201PVL00005/Budgetary-powers

ESO: Key source: Budgetary control http://www.europeansources.info/record/budgetary-control/

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