98/331/EC: European Parliament Decision of 31 March 1998 giving discharge to the Administrative Board of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in respect of the implementation of its budget for the 1996 financial year
Date: 1998-03-31
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: Eurofound, European Parliament, board of directors, budgetary discharge, implementation of the budget

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

of 31 March 1998

giving discharge to the Administrative Board of the European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in respect of the implementation of
its budget for the 1996 financial year

(98/331/EC)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,

(cid:190) Having regard to the EC Treaty and in particular Article 206 thereof,

(cid:190) Having regard to the statement of accounts of the European Foundation for the Improvement
of Living and Working Conditions and the report of the Court of Auditors on this subject
(C4-0052/98) (1),

(cid:190) Having regard to the Council Recommendation of 9 March 1998 (C4-0165/98),

(cid:190) Having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A4-0092/98),

A. Whereas the Court of Auditors finds that the financial statements for the financial year ended
31 December 1996 are reliable and the underlying transactions are, as a whole, legal and
regular,

1. Notes the following figures for the accounts of the European Foundation for the Improve-

ment of Living and Working Conditions:

1996 Financial Year

Revenue

1. Subsidy from the Commission
2. Bank interest
3. Other

Expenditure

1. Final budget appropriations
2. Commitments
3. Unused appropriations
4. Payments
5. Carry-overs from 1996
6. Payments against appropriations carried over
7. Appropriations carried over and cancelled (5-6)
8. Carry-overs to 1997

(ECU)

13 106 034,08

12 895 623,67
120 422,93
89 978,48

13 800 000,00
13 603 844,28
196 155,72
10 505 529,17
3 011 938,09
2 869 742,60
142 195,49
3 098 315,11

2. Expects that, by the time the 1997 discharge Decision falls due, the remaining technical
problems affecting the separation of duties between the authorising officer and the
accounting officer will have been resolved;

3. Calls on the management boards of the Foundation for the Improvement of Living and
Working Conditions and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, swiftly to
adopt their Memorandum of Understanding in order to establish structured cooperation
between them; as soon as this Memorandum is adopted, expects the directors of these two
bodies to present it to its Committees on Employment and Social Affairs, on Budgetary
Control and on Budgets;

4. Draws the Court’s attention to the fact that coordination with Directorate F is now primarily a
matter for the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, not the Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions;

(1) OJ C 393, 29. 12. 1997, p. 10.

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5. Points out that the Foundation exists to advise all EU Institutions, including the European
Parliament; expects all Institutions to be allowed the opportunity to provide a timely input
into the Foundation’s work programme, in order to ensure that the Foundation’s work is
relevant for their agendas;

6. Gives discharge to the Administrative Board of the European Foundation for the Improve-
ment of Living and Working Conditions in respect of the implementation of its budget for
the 1996 financial year, on the basis of the report of the Court of Auditors;

7.

Instructs its President to forward this Decision to the Administrative Board of the European
Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the Council, the
Commission and the Court of Auditors and to have it published in the Official Journal of
the European Communities (L series).

The Secretary-General

Julian PRIESTLEY

The President

Jos(cid:130) Mar(cid:146)a GIL-ROBLES