2014 discharge: Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1489 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2014.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants the Management Committee of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office'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 took note of the fact that the 2014 budget provisions for contributions from the national regulatory authorities of the European Free Trade Association (‘EFTA’) having observer status at BEREC did not materialise in the absence of agreements with the EFTA countries. It invited the Office to remain prudent when forecasting the related contributions from the national regulatory authorities of the EFTA countries.