PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for the financial year 2013.
NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1651 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2013.
CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Chemicals Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget 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 Agency to continuously review its internal processes regarding declarations of interests for its personnel and further improve its policies in order to ensure the independence and transparency in all of the Agency's work areas.