2013 discharge: EU general budget, European Ombudsman

2014/2084(DEC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Ombudsman for the financial year 2013.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1629 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013, Section VIII — European Ombudsman.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants the European Ombudsman discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Ombudsman for the financial year 2013.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 29 April 2015 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 29 April 2015).

Amongst Parliament’s main observations, the latter called on the Ombudsman to put the unused rate of the interpretation services requested during that year in the next annual activity report.