PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for the financial year 2013.
NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2015/1673 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Securities and Markets Authority for the financial year 2013.
CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Securities and Markets Authority for the implementation of the latter’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 noted that the declarations of interests of members of the Board of Supervisors and the Management Board are not publicly available through the website and it called on ESMA to remedy this.