2003/406/EC: European Parliament Decision of 8 April 2003 on closing the accounts of the sixth, seventh and eighth European Development Funds for the 2001 financial year
Date: 2003-04-08
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Development Fund, closing of accounts, financial year

16.6.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 148/13

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

of 8 April 2003

on closing the accounts of the sixth, seventh and eighth European Development Funds for the
2001 financial year

(2003/406/EC)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,

— having regard to the balance sheets and accounts of the sixth, seventh and eighth European

Development Funds for the financial year 2001 (COM(2002) 211 — C5-0190/2002),

— having regard to the annual report of the Court of Auditors on the activities of the sixth, seventh
and eighth European Development Funds for 2001 together with the replies of the institutions
(C5-0539/2002) (1),

— having regard to the Court of Auditors' Statement of Assurance on the European Development

Funds (C5-0539/2002),

— having regard to the Council's recommendations of 7 March 2003 concerning the discharge to be
given to the Commission in respect of the implementation of the operations of the European
Development Funds for the financial year 2001 (C5-0091/2003, C5-0092/2003, C5-0093/2003),

— having regard to Article 33 of

the Internal Agreement of 20 December 1995 between the
representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the
financing and administration of the Community aid under the Second Financial Protocol to the
fourth ACP-EC Convention (2),

— having regard to Article 74 of the Financial Regulation of 16 June 1998 applicable to development

finance cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention (3),

— having regard to Rules 93 and 93 a, third indent, and Annex V of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the

Committee on Development and Cooperation (A5-0072/2003),

1.

Notes that the financial situation of the sixth, seventh and eighth European Development Funds as
at 31 December 2001 was as follows:

(1) OJ C 295, 28.11.2002, p. 289.
(2) OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108.
(3) OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53.

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 148/15

2.

Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice,
the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank, and to have it published in the Official
Journal of the European Union (L series).

The Secretary General

Julian PRIESTLEY

The President

Pat COX