2015 discharge: Euratom Supply Agency

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/1708 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Euratom Supply Agency for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director-General of the Euratom Supply Agency 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 noted that in 2015, the Agency prepared and presented to its advisory committee a draft proposal to amend its rules in order to bring them into line with current market practices. It called on the Agency to inform the discharge authority of further developments regarding the amendment of its rules.