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2016 discharge: European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

2017/2161(DEC)

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) for the financial year 2016.

NON- LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1397 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security for the financial year 2016.

CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security 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 noted with concern that:

  • the Agency did not include a chapter on transparency, accountability and integrity in the 2016 annual report and called on the Agency to include such a chapter in the 2017 annual activity report;
  • payments from the Greek Government are still being made with considerable delay, which in turn causes the payments to the landlords in Athens and Heraklion to be delayed and, while acknowledging that the Agency made great efforts in liaising with the Greek government in order to change the situation, the Agency is called on to report to the discharge authority on the evolution of that situation.

On the other hand, it welcomed the fact that the Agency started to put in place a quality management system during 2016. The quality management manual as well as standard operation procedures and work instructions were drafted based on ISO 9001 standards. Parliament noted with satisfaction that all those documents are in the phase of revision by the management and will be implemented in 2017.