PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2012.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/589/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for the financial year 2012.
CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in respect of its budget for the financial year 2012. However, a certain number of reservations were made.
This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 3 April 2014 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 3 April 2014).
Amongst the main observations made, Parliament expressed reservations about the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions. It regretted in particular the lack of quality of audit certificates from the Institute and the weakness of some ex-post verifications of several of its transactions.