2012 discharge: EU general budget, European Ombudsman

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Ombudsman for the financial year 2012.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/557/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union’s General Budget, section VIII - European Ombudsman for the financial year 2012.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the European Ombudsman in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2012.

The decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 3 April 2014 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 3 April 2014).

Amongst the main observations made, Parliament called on the Ombudsman to cooperate with other institutions to come up with a unified methodology of presenting the translation costs in order to simplify the analysis and comparison of the costs.