2015 discharge: European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1672 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality 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, the latter called for more staff to be allocated to the Institute to work on priority areas, including the fight against violence against women, and to strengthen its capacity to assist the Commission by providing relevant data and technical assistance. It also called for the incorporation of the fight against violence against women and migrant women, and female genital mutilation into the tasks of the Institute.