2013 discharge 2013: European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Aviation Safety Agency in respect of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1643 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the financial year 2013.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency for the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2013.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 29 April 2015 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 29 April 2015).

Amongst Parliament’s main recommendations, it calls on the Agency to improve the transparency of outsourcing through the improved documentation of the allocation processes of certification tasks, since this issue involved reservations on the legality and regularity of its operations, as expressed by the Court of Auditors.