PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy for the financial year 2014.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU, Euratom) 2016/2160 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy for the financial year 2014.
CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament granted the Director of the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy discharge in respect of the implementation of the 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 Parliaments main observations made in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, it noted that due to the challenges currently faced by the ITER Project, the new Director General of the ITER Organisation presented to the ITER Council an action plan including specific measures to address the main constraints that are currently affecting the development of the ITER project.
Parliament welcomed, however, the conclusions of the ITER Council meeting in June 2016 which confirmed that the ITER project is now going in the right direction.