2015 discharge: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT) for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1639 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the Centre for the implementation of its 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 Parliament’s main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, it noted that the Centre took various steps to reduce its budgetary surpluses which is a recurring issue. Parliament noted the reduction of the document translation price in 2015, the introduction of an automatic reimbursement of the previous year's budget outturn to clients as well as the Centre's draft programming document for the 2017-2019 period, which was prepared with deficits in mind, and the subsequent further reduction of the reserve for stability pricing.