2014 discharge: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1513 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Chemicals Agency for the financial year 2014.

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 2014.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 28 April 2016 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 28 April 2016).

Amongst Parliament’s main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, the latter noted that the expenditure for procedures associated with the new implementation of the biocidal products Regulation was to be covered by application fees for the registration of biocidal products. However, the fees collected in 2014 covered only 17 % of this expenditure and the remaining part was financed by contributions to the Agency’s budget from the Union and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. It therefore called on the Agency to take account of this difference in the future.