CELEX: 32000D0468
Language: en
Date: 2000-04-13 00:00:00
Title: 2000/468/EC: European Parliament Decision of 13 April 2000 on granting discharge to the Commission in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) for the 1998 financial year

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32000D0468

2000/468/EC: European Parliament Decision of 13 April 2000 on granting discharge to the Commission in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) for the 1998 financial year  

Official Journal 040 , 07/02/2001 P. 0392 - 0393

European Parliament Decisionof 13 April 2000on granting discharge to the Commission in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) for the 1998 financial year(2000/468/EC)THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,Having regard to the report of the European Court of Auditors on the financial statements of the European Coal and Steel Community at 31 December 1998(1),Having regard to the Court of Auditor's Annual Report on the ECSC for the financial year 1998 (including the statement of assurance concerning the ECSC), together with the Commission's reply (C5-0153/2000)(2),Having regard to the special report of the Court of Auditors on the management and control of interest-rate subsidies by the Commission with the Commission's replies(3),Having regard to the ECSC Treaty, and in particular Article 78g thereof,Having regard to Rule 93 and Annex V to its Rules of Procedure,Having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A5-0092/2000),1. Proposes granting discharge to the Commission in respect of management of the ECSC for the 1998 financial year, but requires the following reports to be submitted before 15 August 2000:(a) a report by OLAF on the follow-up to allegations of fraud communicated in November 1998 to the Commission and transmitted to the Guardia di Finanza in Italy in October 1999;(b) an evaluation report by the Commission on buildings acquired with ECSC funds, including criteria used and explanations as to why and how buildings were acquired and disposed of;(c) an evaluation report by the Commission on loans granted to officials from ECSC funds, including criteria used and explanations as to who decided on the granting of loans and the category and nationality of officials who benefited from loans.2. Instructs its President to forward this decision and the resolution containing its comments to the Commission, the Council, the Court of Auditors, the ECSC Consultative Committee and each of the other institutions and to have them published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (L series).The Secretary-GeneralJulian PriestleyThe PresidentNicole Fontaine(1) OJ C 240, 25.8.1999, p. 24.(2) OJ C 338, 25.11.1999.(3) OJ C 217, 29.7.1999.