2013 discharge: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the financial year 2013.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1649 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the financial year 2013.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for the implementation of the latter’s 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 observations, the latter noted with concern the comments from the Court of Auditors on the legality and regularity of transactions and asked the Centre to take action to remedy the shortcomings identified by the Court.