Decision No 1/2019 of the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors of 25 February 2019 giving a discharge to the Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2017 [2019/355]
Date: 2019-02-25
Institutions: ACP–EU Committee of Ambassadors
Subjects: ACP-EU institution, budgetary discharge, cooperation on agriculture, financial year, general budget (EU), rural development








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Official Journal of the European Union


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            DECISION No 1/2019 OF THE ACP-EU COMMITTEE OF AMBASSADORS
         
of 25 February 2019
         
giving a discharge to the Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2017 [2019/355]


THE ACP-EU COMMITTEE OF AMBASSADORS,

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 (1), and in particular Article 2(6) of Annex III thereto,


Having regard to Decision No 5/2013 of the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors of 7 November 2013 on the Statutes of Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2), and in particular Article 4(2) of the Annex thereto,


Having regard to Decision No 3/2006 of the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors of 27 September 2006 on the Financial Regulation of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (3), in particular Article 26(5) thereof,


Having regard to the financial statements of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the financial year 2017 that ended on 31 December 2017,


Having regard to the Auditors' report on the Centre's accounts for the financial year 2017,


Having taken note of the replies given by the Director of the Centre to the comments made by the Auditors,


Having taken note of the approval of the financial statements and the Auditors' report of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for the financial year 2017 by the Board of the Centre,

Whereas:







(1)


The revenue of the Centre for the financial year 2017 consisted principally of contributions from the European Development Fund amounting to EUR 14 792 000.












(2)


The Director's overall implementation of the Centre's budget during the financial year 2017 was such that the Director should be given a discharge in respect of the implementation of that budget,





HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:



Sole Article
The Committee, on the basis of the Auditors' report and the financial statements for the corresponding financial year, hereby gives a discharge to the Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2017.




Done at Brussels, 25 February 2019.


For the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors


The Chairman

Luminița Teodora ODOBESCU
            





(1)  
            OJ L 317, 15.12.2000, p. 3.

(2)  
            OJ L 309, 19.11.2013, p. 50.

(3)  
            OJ L 350, 12.12.2006, p. 1.