2012 discharge: Euratom Supply Agency (ESA)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2012.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/607/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2012.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director-General of the Euratom Supply Agency for the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2012.

This 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 recalled that between 2008 and 2011, the Agency did not receive its own budget and the Commission directly financed and discharged all expenditure, a situation which the Court of Auditors considered to be at odds with the Statutes of the Agency.