2014 discharge: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1495 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2014.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the implementation of the latter’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 the repair works on the Centre's building in Greece were not finalised by the end of 2014 even though it is aware that construction work had to be suspended due to the economic situation in the host Member State.