2012 discharge: EU general budget, Court of Justice

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Court of Justice for the financial year 2012.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/553/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Union’s General Budget, section IV – Court of Justice, for the financial year 2012.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Registrar of the Court of Justice 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 urged the Court of Justice to find a way to properly manage the trend towards an increase in the number of new cases and heavy workload as internal reforms and the revision of the Rules of Procedure alone will not be sufficient in the coming years to significantly decrease the number of pending cases in the Court of Justice.