2015 discharge: EU general budget, European Data Protection Supervisor

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Data Protection Supervisor for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1628 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015, Section IX — European Data Protection Supervisor.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants the European Data Protection Supervisor discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Data Protection Supervisor for the financial year 2015.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 27 April 2017 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 27 April 2017).

Amongst Parliament’s main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, the latter urged the Supervisor to lay down clear binding rules regarding ‘revolving doors’ and to improve its communications policy in relation with Union citizens.