2009/236/EC: Decision of the European Parliament of 22 April 2008 on the closure of the accounts of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds for the financial year 2006
Date: 2008-04-22
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: European Development Fund, closing of accounts, financial year, implementation of the budget

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DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

of 22 April 2008

on the closure of the accounts of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development Funds
for the financial year 2006

(2009/236/EC)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,

— having regard to the Commission report on the follow-up to the 2005 discharge decisions (COM(2007)

538 and its annex SEC(2007) 1185),

— 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 2006 (COM(2007) 458 —
C6-0118/2007) (1),

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

European Development Funds for the year 2006 (COM(2007) 240),

— 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 2006, together with the
Commission's replies (2),

— 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 (3),

— having regard to the Council's recommendations of 12 February 2008 (16744/2007 — C6-0078/2008,
16745/2007 — C6-0079/2008, 16746/2007 — C6-0080/2008, 16748/2007 — C6-0081/2008),

— having regard to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific
Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part,
signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (4) and revised in Luxembourg on 25 June 2005 (5),

— having regard to Council Decision 2001/822/EC of 27 November 2001 on the association of the
overseas countries and territories with the European Community (‘Overseas Association Decision’) (6),
amended by Council Decision 2007/249/EC of 19 March 2007 (7),

— 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 (8),

— having regard to Article 32 of the Internal Agreement of 18 September 2000, between representatives 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 (9),

— having regard to Article 276 of the EC Treaty,

(1) OJ C 260, 31.10.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 259, 31.10.2007, p. 1.
(3) OJ C 260, 31.10.2007, p. 258.
(4) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 287, 28.10.2005, p. 4.
(6) OJ L 314, 30.11.2001, p. 1 and OJ L 324, 7.12.2001, p. 1.
(7) OJ L 109, 26.4.2007, p. 33.
(8) OJ L 156, 29.5.1998, p. 108.
(9) OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 355.

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

finance cooperation under the fourth ACP-EC Convention (1),

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

European Development Fund (2),

— 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 (A6-0106/2008),

1. Notes that the final annual accounts of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development

Funds are as shown in table 1 of the Court of Auditors' annual report;

2.

3.

Approves the closure of the accounts of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth European Development
Funds for the financial year 2006;

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 arrange for its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Union (L series).

The President

Hans-Gert PÖTTERING

The Secretary-General

Harald RØMER

(1) OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 53.
(2) OJ L 83, 1.4.2003, p. 1.