2014 discharge: EU general budget, European Ombudsman

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Ombudsman for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1480 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 VIII — European Ombudsman.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants the European Ombudsman discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Ombudsman 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 called on the Ombudsman, with a view to ensuring greater transparency, to include in its annual activity report the results and consequences of closed OLAF cases, where the Ombudsman or any of the individuals working for it were the subject of an investigation.