1999/433/EC: Decision of the European Parliament of 4 May 1999 giving discharge to the Management Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training in respect of the implementation of its budget for the 1997 financial year
Date: 1999-05-04
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: Cedefop, European Parliament, budgetary discharge, financial management, implementation of the budget

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Official Journal of the European Communities

3. 7. 1999

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

of 4 May 1999

giving discharge to the Management Board of the European Centre for the Develop-
ment of Vocational Training in respect of the implementation of its budget for the
1997 financial year

(1999/433/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
the Development of Vocational Training
thereto

the European Centre for

the 1997 financial

and the Centre’s

reply

year

for

management of
(Cedefop–Salonica)
(C4-0053/99) (1),

 Having regard to the Council Recommendation of 11 February 1999 (5912/99–C4-0148/99),

 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 Centre for the Development of

Vocational Training:

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

Appropriations carried over

(Article 6(3) and Article 3(2))

Balance for the year

Outturn for the year (a)–(b)

Appropriations carried over from the previous year and annuled

Exchange differences for the year

Appropriations carried over (Article 6(3) and Article 3(2))

Cancellation of established entitlement

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

(ECU 1 000)

13 808

13 522

152

134

13 931

5 579

541

981

2 067

2 544

2 204

15

0

– 123

199

– 61

– 1

– 14

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2. Welcomes the introduction of a new budgetary and accounting system, steps taken to reduce
reliance on imprest accounts, the adoption of a new staff policy and the submission of
bi-annual progress reports to Parliament on the state of new premises which the Centre will
occupy in 1999;

3. Gives discharge to the Management Board of the European Centre for the Development of
Vocational Training in respect of the implementation of its budget for the 1997 financial year;

4. Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Management Board of the European
Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, the Council, the Commisson and the
Court of Auditors and to have it published in the Official Journal (L series).

The Secretary-General

Julian PRIESTLEY

The President

José María GIL-ROBLES