1996 discharge: 6th and 7th EDF. Communication included

The Committee proposes that the Commission be granted the discharge for the financial management of the 6th and 7th EDFs in 1996. The report WYNN (PES, UK) notes with great disappointment that the Amsterdam Treaty made no progress towards budgetisation of the EDFs and believes that this omission seriously undermines the discharge procedure. It emphasises that the democratic scrutiny which Parliament is supposed to exercise over the management of the EDFs continues to be subverted by the legal framework under which the EDFs operate. �