2000 discharge: EC general budget, Ombudsman

PURPOSE : to grant the discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the 2000 financial year - Section VIII - Ombudsman. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Decision 2002/453/EC of the European Parliament. CONTENT : with this Decision, the European Parliament grants the discharge to the Council, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and for the first time to the European Ombudsman of their respective budgets for the financial year 2000. This decision is accompanied by comments which constitute an integral part of the discharge decision and which are included in the Parliament's opinion (please refer to the summary of the opinion dated 25 April 2002). Please refer to DEC/2001/2104 for details of the discharge procedure for all the European institutions (except the Commission).�