2013 discharge: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) for the financial year 2013.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/2210 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2013.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in respect of its budget for the financial year 2013 and approved the closure of the Institute’s accounts in a parallel decision (Decision (EU) 2015/2211).

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's second resolution adopted on 27 October 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 27 October 2015).

Amongst the main observations made, Parliament expressed reservations about the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions. It regretted that for the second consecutive year no reasonable assurance on the legality and regularity of the grant transactions and called on the Institute to strengthen its audit methods and checks on the grant transactions.