2014 discharge: Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1486 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2014.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget 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 regretted that more than four years after the entry into force of the Seat Agreement, no European School has been set up. It encouraged the Agency and the host Member State to resolve that issue and called on the Agency to inform the discharge authority of state of play of the negotiations.