2013 discharge: European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2013.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1659 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2013. 

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality 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 Institute to include the joint annual meetings between Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Institute in its annual work programme, and to regularly present the results and findings of its research before the relevant Parliamentary committees.