2014 discharge: European Police Office (Europol)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Police Office (Europol) for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1570 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Police Office for the financial year 2014. 

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Police Office for the implementation of its 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 called on the Office in future to keep the level of committed appropriations carried over as low as possible, in order to comply more effectively with its duties of transparency and accountability.