2001 discharge: EC general budget, section III Commission

PURPOSE : to grant discharge to the Commission on the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2001. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Decisions 2003/408/EC, ECSC, Euratom and 2003/409/EC, Euratom of the European Parliament concerning discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2001 and the closing of the accounts of the same budget (Section III-Commission). CONTENT : with the present decisions, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Commission on the implementation of the general budget for the financial year 2001 and the closure of the 2001 accounts concerning the implementation of the Commission's budget. It should be noted that the Parliament expresses reservations as to the reliability of the Community accounts. The decisions are accompanied by resolutions containing a series of comments which complete the discharge decisions. These are included in the Parliament's opinion (please refer to the summary of the European Parliament's resolution dated 8 April 2003).�