Procedures for the consultation of Parliament on the apppointment of Members of the Court of Auditors

The committee adopted unanimously with one abstention the report by J. L. BOURLANGES on the introduction of certain rules to limit the risk of contradiction between opinions by the European Parliament and decisions by the Council, pending amendment of the TEU in 1996, in order to make provision for a procedure for Parliament's assent in connection with the appointment of the members of the Court of Auditors. The report called on the Council to comply with the criteria set out by the European Parliament in its resolution of April 1992 on the procedure for appointing the members of the Court of Auditors. In addition and in order to deal with requirements following the accession of the three new Member States, it called on them to show greater alacrity in making appointments after 1 January 1995, promising that the European Parliament would return an opinion on the matter as quickly as possible.�