2014 discharge: EU general budget, Court of Justice

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Court of Justice for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT : Decision (EU) 2016/1470 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section IV — Court of Justice.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants the Registrar of the Court of Justice discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Court of Justice for the financial year 2014.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 28 April 2016 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 28 April 2016).

Amongst Parliament’s main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, it noted that there is still a shortage of women in positions of responsibility at the Court of Justice and called for the imbalance to be corrected as soon as possible.