2016 discharge: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT)

2017/2153(DEC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (CdT) for the financial year 2016.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1346 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2016.

CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Director of the Centre for the implementation of its 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 welcomed the Centre’s 2016 achievement of developing a new pricing structure for the translation of documents which resulted in the Centre's clients achieving savings based on the reuse of content stored in the Centre's translation memories.

It noted that the decrease in cash and short term deposits results from a budgetary approach which intends to reduce the accumulated surplus from previous years. The Centre envisages that the decrease of the budgetary surpluses will be further accelerated in 2017 as a result of the implementation of the new pricing structure that will decrease the average price for translation paid by the Centre’s clients.