2006/837/EC: Decision of the European Parliament of 27 April 2006 on the closure of the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2004
Date: 2006-04-27
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Medicines Agency, closing of accounts, financial year, implementation of the budget

L 340/108

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

6.12.2006

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

of 27 April 2006

on the closure of the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year 2004

(2006/837/EC)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,

— having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year

2004 (1),

— having regard to the Court of Auditors' report on the annual accounts of the European Medicines

Agency for the financial year 2004, together with the Agency's replies (2),

— having regard to the Council's recommendation of 14 March 2006 (5972/2006 — C6-0093/2006),

— having regard to the EC Treaty, and in particular Article 276 thereof,

— having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
the European Communities (3), and in particular

Regulation applicable to the general budget of
Article 185 thereof,

— having regard to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal
products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (4), and in par-
ticular Article 68 thereof,

— 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 (5), and in particular Article 94 thereof,

— having regard to Rule 71 of and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,

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

on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (A6-0101/2006),

1.

Notes the following figures for the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial
years 2004 and 2003:

Revenue and expenditure account for the financial years 2004 and 2003

Revenue

Fees relating to marketing authorisations

Commission subsidy including subsidies received from the EEA

Community subsidy for orphan medicines

Contributions for Community programmes

Administrative revenue

Sundry revenue

(1 000 EUR)

2004

2003

68 412

20 529

4 026

0

1 973

1 473

58 657

19 786

2 814

1 208

1 703

1 788

Total (a)

96 413

85 956

(1) OJ C 269, 28.10.2005, p. 17.
(2) OJ C 332, 28.12.2005, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1261/2005 (OJ L 201,

2.8.2005, p. 3).

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(1 000 EUR)

2004

2003

Expenditure (1)

Staff expenditure

Administrative expenditure

Operating expenditure

Depreciation

Other expenditure

34 333

11 224

38 573

3 650

280

Total (b)

88 060

Surplus from operating activities (c = a - b)

Financial operations (e)

Economic result (f = c + e)

8 353

1 160

9 513

29 663

10 835

32 838

2 364

0

75 700

10 256

676

10 932

(1) The portion of the appropriations carried over which is to be regarded as expenditure for the financial year has been evalu-

ated on an overall basis rather than on the basis of examining individual transactions.

2.

3.

Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year
2004;

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

The President

Josep BORRELL FONTELLES

The Secretary-General

Julian PRIESTLEY