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2014 discharge: EU general budget, European External Action Service (EEAS)

2015/2163(DEC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European External Action Service (EEAS) for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1474 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 X — European External Action Service.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European External Action Service 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, the latter encouraged the EEAS to carry on with the reflection process taking place within it on the future of the EU special representatives and their relationship with the special envoys and the EEAS.