PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Artemis Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2014.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/2157 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Artemis Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2014.
CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament granted the Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the Artemis Joint Undertaking and the ENIAC Joint Undertaking) discharge in respect of the implementation of the Artemis Joint Undertaking's budget for the financial year 2014.
This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 27 October 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 27 October 2016).
Among Parliament’s main observations made in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, it expressed concern that the Court of Auditors issued a qualified opinion regarding the regularity and legality of the underlying transactions regarding the audit of project cost claims.
Parliament noted, however, that the ECSEL JTI has corrected most of the irregularities noted above.