2005/113/EU: Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council of 27 January 2005 giving a discharge to the Secretary-General of the Convention on the Future of the European Union in respect of the implementation for the financial year 2003 of the budget of the Fund set up for the financing of the Convention
Date: 2005-01-27
Institutions: Representatives of the Governments of the Member States
Subjects: European convention, Secretary General of an Institution, financing, fund (EU), implementation of the budget

9.2.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 36/7

CONFERENCE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES

DECISION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES
MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL

of 27 January 2005

giving a discharge to the Secretary-General of the Convention on the Future of the European Union
in respect of the implementation for the financial year 2003 of the budget of the Fund set up for
the financing of the Convention

(2005/113/EU)

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER
STATES MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
UNION,

Having regard to Decision 2002/176/EU of the Representatives
of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the
Council, of 21 February 2002, setting up a Fund for the
financing of the Convention on the Future of the European
its
rules
down
Union
management (1), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

financial

laying

and

the

for

Having regard to the assent of the European Parliament of
14 December 2004 on the discharge to be given to the
the
Secretary-General of
European Union in respect of
the implementation for the
financial year 2003 of the budget of the Fund set up for the
financing of the Convention,

the Convention on the Future of

Having regard to the assent of the Council of 28 June 2004 on
the discharge to be given to the Secretary-General of
the
Convention on the Future of the European Union in respect
of the implementation for the financial year 2003 of the budget
of the Fund set up for the financing of the Convention,

Having regard to the assent of the Commission of 19 October
2004 on the discharge to be given to the Secretary-General of
the Convention on the Future of the European Union in respect
of the implementation for the financial year 2003 of the budget
of the Fund set up for the financing of the Convention,

Having examined the revenue and expenditure account, balance
sheet and report by the Court of Auditors, for the financial year
2003 (2), as submitted to them,

Whereas, according to the revenue and expenditure account for
the financial year 2003:
— revenue amounted to
— expenditure disbursed from
appropriations amounted to

EUR 3 968 149,

EUR 4 088 524

(1) OJ L 60, 1.3.2002, p. 56.
(2) OJ C 157, 14.6.2004, p. 1.

Whereas the accounts result in the outturn of EUR 120 375 to
be divided between the participating institutions, taking into
that an amount of EUR 655 368 relating to the
account
estimated costs of translation and publication has been trans-
ferred to the Secretariat-General of
the Council which
undertook the obligation to settle these costs,

Whereas the Court of Auditors will follow up the use of the
amounts transferred to the Secretariat-General of the Council
and the subsequent consequences on the final outturn when
auditing the Council accounts for the 2004 financial year,

Whereas in its report the Court of Auditors concluded that its
audit had enabled it to obtain reasonable assurance that the
the financial year ended 31 December 2003
accounts for
were reliable and that
the underlying transactions were, on
the whole, legal and regular,

Whereas the Secretary-General of the Convention on the Future
of the European Union made no comments on the Court’s
report,

HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

A discharge is hereby given to the Secretary-General of the
Convention on the Future of the European Union in respect
of the implementation for the financial year 2003 of the budget
of the Fund set up for the financing of the Convention.

Done at Brussels, 27 January 2005.

The President

M. SCHOMMER