PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the European Parliament for the 2012 financial year.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/542/EU, Euratom of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2012, Section I — European Parliament.
CONTENT: under this Decision and according to Article 318 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the European Parliament grants its President discharge in respect of the implementation of the European Parliament budget for the financial year 2012.
The Decision is in line with the European Parliament’s resolution approved on 3 April 2014 and includes a series of observations which form an integral part of the discharge Decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 3 April 2014).
The resolution recalled, inter alia, that Parliament’s budget accounted for EUR 1 718 million which represents 20% of the amount set aside for the 2012 administrative expenditure of the Union institutions as a whole).