2016 discharge: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) for the financial year 2016.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1349 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the financial year 2016.

CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Director of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the implementation of the latter’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 welcomed the three main achievements identified by the Centre in 2016, namely that it:

• released the outcome of its three-year project on the role that vocational education and training (VET) can play in addressing early leaving from education and training;
• designed a toolkit that provides practical guidance, tips, good practices and tools drawn from VET to feed into activities and policies which help young people at risk of becoming early leavers to remain in education and training and help them to reintegrate into education or training and the labour market;
• published an updated skills and demand forecast projecting trends in employment up to 2025.

However, it regretted that the Centre did not use the impact indicators to monitor the success of those achievements.