2013 discharge: European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) for the financial year 2013.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1655 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Fisheries Control Agency for the financial year 2013. 

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Fisheries Control 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 observations, it called on the EFCA to revise its policy on declarations of interests and publish the CVs of its personnel on a mandatory basis in order to contribute to more transparency.