1999/432/EC: Decision of the European Parliament of 4 May 1999 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 1997 financial year
Date: 1999-05-04
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: Eurofound, European Parliament, budgetary discharge, financial management, implementation of the budget

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3. 7. 1999

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

of 4 May 1999

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 1997 financial year

(1999/432/EC)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,

 Having regard to the EC Treaty and in particular Article 276 thereof,

 Having regard to the report of the Court of Auditors on the financial statements and
management of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions (Dublin Foundation) for the financial year 1997, and the Foundation’s reply
thereto (C4-0054/99) (1),

 Having regard to the Council Recommendation of 11 February 1999 (5913/99–C4-0149/99),

 Having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A4-0163/99),

A. Whereas the Court of Auditors finds that the financial statements for the financial year ended
31 December 1997 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 Improvement

of Living and Working Conditions:

1997 FINANCIAL YEAR

(a) Revenue

1. Subsidy from the Commission

2. Miscellaneous revenue

3. Revenue from services rendered against payment

(b) Expenditure

Staff expenditure

1. Payments for the year

2. Appropriations carried over

Administrative expenditure

1. Payments for the year

2. Appropriations carried over

Operating expenditure

1. Payments for the year

2. Appropriations carried over

Balance for the year

Outturn for the year (a) – (b)

Appropriations carried over from the previous year which lapse

Exchange differences for the year

(1) OJ C 406, 28.12.1998, p. 12.

(ECU 1 000 )

13 646

13 451

146

49

13 833

6 617

7

898

145

2 954

3 212

– 24

– 187

159

4

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2. Acknowledges the positive steps taken by the Foundation to resolve remaining technical
problems affecting the separation of duties between the authorising officer and the accounting
officer and the implementation of a new decentralised financial system;

3. Welcomes the adoption of a Memorandum of Understanding in order to establish structured
cooperation between the management boards of the Foundation for the Improvement of
Working and Living Conditions and the European Agency for Health and Safety;

4. Encourages efforts made by the Foundation to improve day-to-day management of imprest
accounts by the establishment of clear definitions, the application of strict guidelines to reduce
mission expenses and improvements in procedures for establishing the annual budget as
regards study contracts;

5. Gives 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 1997
financial year, on the basis of the report of the Court of Auditors;

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

the Council,

The Secretary-General

Julian PRIESTLEY

The President

José María GIL-ROBLES