2003/890/EC: European Parliament Decision of 6 November 2003 on the discharge to the Director of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2001
Date: 2003-11-06
Institutions: BLAK, Committee on Budgetary Control, European Parliament
Subjects: Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union, budgetary discharge, financial year, implementation of the budget

2.4.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 83 E/161

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Reiterates its call on the Commission to submit a proposal for an amendment to the constituent
acts of the Agencies to ensure that their directors may in future be appointed only with the assent of
Parliament; awaits proposals from the Commission to this effect, to be submitted by 1 December 2003
at the latest.

Thursday 6 November 2003

P5_TA(2003)0479

2001 discharges: Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union

1.
European Parliament decision on the discharge to the Director of the Translation Centre for the
bodies of the European Union in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year
2001 (C5-0100/2003 (cid:1) 2003/2045(DEC))

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to the Court of Auditors’ report on the financial statements of the Translation Centre
for the bodies of the European Union for the financial year 2001, together with the Centre’s replies (1)
(C5-0100/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 7 March 2003 (C5-0101/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

(cid:1) having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (2) and in particular Arti-
cle 185 thereof,

(cid:1) having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on
the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation
(EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the
European Communities (3) and, in particular, Article 94 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002,

(cid:1) having regard to Rule 93a and Annex V of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to its decision of 8 April 2003 on the postponement of the decision concerning dis-

charge and its resolution containing the comments accompanying that decision (4),

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A5-0360/2003),

Gives discharge to the Director of the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union in

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respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2001;

2.

Records its comments in the accompanying resolution;

3.
Instructs its President to forward this decision and the accompanying resolution to the Director of
the Translation Centre for the bodies of the European Union, the Council, the Commission and the Court
of Auditors and to have them published in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).

(1) OJ C 326, 27.12.2002, p. 35.
(2) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002.
(3) OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.
(4) OJ L 148, 16.6.2003, pp. 16 and 18.