2013 discharge: IMI Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the IMI Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2013.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1699 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines for the financial year 2013.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the budget of the Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on Innovative Medicines 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 an IT risk for the Joint Undertaking's specific IT systems as well as the common infrastructure it shares with the FCH, Clean Sky, ENIAC and Artemis Joint Undertakings. It asked the Joint Undertaking to change control processes in the infrastructure.