2013 discharge: European Medicines Agency (EMA)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the financial year 2013.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1663 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2013.

CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament gives discharge to the Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency for the implementation of the Agency’s budget for 2013.

The Decision is consistent with the European Parliament’s resolution adopted on 29 April 2015 and includes a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (refer to the summary of the opinion of 29 April 2015).

Amongst the main observations made, Parliament called on the Agency to ensure complete transparency as regards to the origins of its budget and to shed light on the recruitment procedures.