PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) for the financial year 2016.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1379 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2016.
CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality 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 prioritising of the work on several areas with outputs of high quality and high visibility, without losing focus on gender mainstreaming.
However, it regretted that in 2016 the gender balance ratio was 72 % female to 28 % male. This Institute is called on to aim for a more gender-balanced staff composition.