PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Commission for the implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2006.
LEGISLATIVE ACTS: Decisions 2009/187/EC, Euratom and 2009/190/EC, Euratom of the European Parliament on the discharge for implementation of the European Union general budget for the financial year 2006 and the closing of the accounts of the same budget (Section III – Commission).
CONTENT: with the present decisions, the European Parliament grants the European Commission discharge for the implementation of the general budget for 2006 and definitively closes the accounts for the year 2006. The Parliament also grants discharge to the Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency and the Intelligent Energy Executive Agency.
Moreover, the Parliament recalls that 80% of Community expenditure is administered by the Member States under shared management, and that, therefore, each Member State must be able to take responsibility for the management of EU funds received by it. It therefore urges all Member States to publish national declarations on the use and implementation of EU funds received.
The Parliament also makes a number of other observations in a resolution annexed to the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 22/04/2008).