2015 discharge: European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy - Fusion for Energy Joint Undertaking (F4E)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/1744 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy (Fusion for Energy) for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament granted the Director of the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy discharge in respect of the implementation of the Joint Undertaking'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).

Among Parliaments main observations made in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, it noted that in the process of granting the postponed 2014 discharge, the discharge authority requested the Joint Undertaking's director to present a detailed progress report on all the key actions that would confirm that the project is going the right direction and that all these actions are being implemented. The report was presented to the discharge authority in January 2017.