2012 discharge: Artemis Joint Undertaking to implement a Joint Technology Initiative in Embedded Computing Systems

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Artemis Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2012.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/621/EU of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Artemis Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2012.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the Artemis Joint Undertaking in respect of its budget for the financial year 2012.

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 made a number of cross-cutting comments as regards all the Joint Undertakings (JUs) and invited the Court of Auditors to conduct a detailed analysis of the JUs in a separate report in light of the substantial amounts involved and the risks - notably reputational - presented. It stressed that such assessment has an urgent character as regards Artemis and ENIAC Joint Undertakings.