2015 discharge: Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1732 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the latters 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 representation of genders is extremely unbalanced and urged the Joint Undertaking to improve the gender imbalance in its various bodies and to put forward a plan for realising that goal.

Parliament called on the Commission to ensure the direct involvement of the Joint Undertaking in the process of the Horizon 2020 mid-term review in the sphere of further simplifications and harmonisation of Joint Undertakings.