PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2016.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1343 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications for the financial year 2016.
CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant the Management Committee of the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications discharge in respect of the implementation of the Office's budget for the financial year 2016.
This decision is accompanied by a resolution of the European Parliament containing the observations which form an integral part of the discharge decision in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 (please refer to the summary dated 18.4.2018).
In this resolution, Parliament noted that a draft internal whistleblowing policy has been developed. It noted with appreciation that the Office organised an in-house training on ethical values, conflicts of interest, fraud prevention and whistleblowing.
Lastly, Parliament noted that, according to the Court’s report, the Office should, together with the Commission, consider commissioning a periodical external performance evaluation at least every five years, as is the case for most of the other agencies. It noted with appreciation that the Office is ready to cooperate with the Commission in future evaluations.