2015 discharge: Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) for the financial year 2015.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2017/1633 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators for the financial year 2015.

CONTENT: with the present decision, the European Parliament grants discharge to the Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2015.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 27 April 2017 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 April 2017).

Amongst Parliaments main observations in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, the latter regretted that although the Agency's administrative board adopted the policy for the prevention and management of conflicts of interests, some CVs and declarations of the members of the board of regulators remain missing from the website. Parliament called for these documents to be published.

Parliament recalled, as it did the previous year, that the Agency has repeatedly signalled to the host Member State the urgency of the establishment of a European School in Ljubljana. It deplored the fact that, more than four years after the entry into force of the agreement between the Agency and the Slovenian Government, no European School has been set up.