2012 discharge: European Medicines Agency (EMA)

2013/2215(DEC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the financial year 2012.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/591/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2012.

CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament gives discharge to the Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency for the implementation of the Agency’s budget for 2012.

The Decision is consistent with the European Parliament’s resolution adopted on 3 April 2014 and includes a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (refer to the summary of the opinion of 3 April 2014).

Amongst the main observations made, Parliament highlighted the failures as regards the legality and regularity of operations, without calling into question its overall management.