2014 discharge: European Training Foundation (ETF)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Training Foundation (ETF) in respect of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2014.

NON LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/1552 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Training Foundation for the financial year 2014.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the European Training Foundation 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, the latter pointed out that the Foundation operates in a dynamic environment which requires a high level of flexibility in continually updating and adjusting its activities to meet expected results in the delivery of support to partner countries (e.g. in the southern and eastern Mediterranean and in eastern Europe owing to the crisis in Ukraine). It suggested that full advantage of the work done by the Foundation be taken in the area of migration and skills.