2015 discharge: Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC Office)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1636 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 2015.

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 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 Parliaments main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, the latter noted that the Office expects to conclude its internal rules on whistleblowing in the first half of 2017 and has already sent its draft policy to the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) for prior checking. The Agency is called on to adopt an internal whistleblowing policy which will foster a culture of transparency and accountability in the workplace.