2015 discharge: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1711 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of Eurofound for the implementation of the latter’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 Parliament’s main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, the latter noted that a comprehensive headquarters agreement between the Foundation and the Member State hosting the Foundation is marked as ‘completed’. The host Member State is to provide the best possible conditions to ensure the functioning of the Foundation, including multilingual, European-oriented schooling and appropriate transport connections.