2016 discharge: Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2016.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2018/1439 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2016.

CONTENT: the European Parliament decided to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the latters 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 fact that, the governing board adopted a common anti-fraud strategy action plan in 2016 and that the Joint Undertaking takes part in and implements the preventive and corrective measures in accordance with its 2015 anti-fraud strategy and anti-fraud action plan at Union level.

Parliament also noted that at the end of 2016, the Joint Undertaking had not yet cleared any of the pre-financing payments (EUR 176 million) made to its industrial members for projects under Horizon 2020 grant agreements. It called on the Commission to ensure the direct involvement of the Joint Undertaking in the process of the Horizon 2020 mid-term review in the sphere of further simplifications and harmonisation of joint undertakings.