2013 discharge: SESAR Joint Undertaking to develop the new generation European air traffic management system

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

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1703 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the SESAR Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2013.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking 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 called on SESAR Joint Undertaking to strengthen its links with the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking in order to improve the communication and reinforce synergies and complementarities, ensuring at the same time that there was no risk of overlapping between the activities of the two joint undertakings in question.