PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in respect of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2014.
NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1540 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2014.
CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the implementation of its 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, it noted that the Agency actively sought potential synergies with other agencies in particular by sharing its business continuity facility in Madrid with the Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy and with the European Fisheries Control Agency. It called on the Agency to enhance its procedures and practices aimed at contributing to a results-oriented discharge process.