1. European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 - C6-0264/2006 - 2006/2169(DEC))
Date: 2008-03-20
Institutions: Committee on Budgetary Control, European Parliament
Subjects: European Development Fund, budgetary discharge, financial year, implementation of the budget

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— Commission departments provide assistance for all tasks concerning the management of persons linked
to the institution (determination of entitlements, payment of salaries, reimbursement of medical costs,
mission payments, etc.),

— Commission departments also help the EDPS in establishing and implementing the budget,

— the EDPS is installed in the premises of the European Parliament; the European Parliament's depart-
ments assist the EDPS as regards material facilities and know-how relating to his installation in the
premises (security of the buildings, mail, computers, telephones, offices and supplies),

— the Council provides translation facilities;

Notes that on 7 December 2006 the administrative cooperation agreement was renewed for a further

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period of 3 years with effect from 16 January 2007;

Notes that by decision of 7 November 2006 the EDPS decided to set up an internal control structure

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appropriate to the Institution's activities and requirements;

8. Welcomes the decision by the EDPS and the assistant supervisor to publish, every year, a declaration
of their economic and financial interests as soon as their new website is completed in early 2007; notes that
in the meantime they have forwarded written statements concerning their financial interests for the years
2005 and 2006 in a form similar to that filled in annually by Members of the European Parliament,
disclosing no declarable professional activities, remunerated posts or activities or other relevant information;

9. Welcomes the readiness of the EDPS to join the interinstitutional agreement on OLAF and encourages
him to take all necessary steps as soon as possible.

P6_TA(2007)0112

Discharge 2005: Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds

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European Parliament decision of 24 April 2007 on the discharge for implementation of the budget
for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005
(COM(2006)0429 — C6-0264/2006 — 2006/2169(DEC))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission report on the follow-up to the 2004 discharge decisions

(COM(2006)0641 and its annex SEC(2006)1376),

— having regard to the financial statements and revenue and expenditure accounts for the Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005 (COM(2006)0429 —
C6-0264/2006) (1),

— having regard to the report on the financial management of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth

European Development Funds for the year 2005 (COM(2006)0405),

— having regard to the Court of Auditors' annual report on the activities funded by the Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005, together with the audited
institutions' replies (2),

(1) OJ C 265, 31.10.2006, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 205.

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— having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and
regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 248 of
the EC Treaty (1),

— having regard to the Council's recommendations of 27 February 2007 (6061/2007 — C6-0094/2007,
6062/2007 — C6-0095/2007, 6063/2007 — C6-0096/2007, 6064/2007 — C6-0097/2007),

— having regard to Article 33 of the Internal Agreement of 20 December 1995, between the representa-
tives 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 Con-
vention (2),

— having regard to Article 32 of the Internal Agreement of 18 September 2000, between the representa-
tives of the governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, on the financing and
administration of Community aid under the Financial Protocol to the Partnership Agreement between
the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Community and its Member States signed in
Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000, and the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries
and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies (3),

— having regard to Article 276 of the EC Treaty,

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

finance cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention (4),

— having regard to Article 119 of the Financial Regulation of 27 March 2003 applicable to the Ninth

European Development Fund (5),

— having regard to Rules 70 and 71, third indent, 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 Development (A6-0115/2007),

A. whereas, in its statement of assurance on the European Development Funds (EDFs), the Court of Audi-
tors concludes that, with certain exceptions, the accounts for the financial year 2005 reliably reflect the
revenue and expenditure for the financial year and the financial situation at the end of the year,

B. whereas the Court of Auditors' conclusion on the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions

is based, inter alia, on the audit of a sample of transactions,

C. whereas the Court of Auditors, on the basis of the documentation examined, is of the opinion that the
revenue entered in the accounts, the EDF allocations and the commitments and payments are, taken as
a whole, legal and regular,

Grants the Commission discharge for implementation of the budget for the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and

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Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2005;

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Sets out its observations in the resolution below;

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

(1) OJ C 263, 31.10.2006, p. 213.
(2) OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108.
(3) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 355.
(4) OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53.
(5) OJ L 83, 1.4.2003, p. 1.