98/329/EC: European Parliament Decision of 31 March 1998 giving discharge to the Commission in respect of the financial management of the sixth European Development Fund for the financial year 1996
L 146/26 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 16. 5. 98 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION of 31 March 1998 giving discharge to the Commission in respect of the financial management of the sixth European Development Fund for the financial year 1996 (98/329/EC) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, ü Having regard to the EC Treaty, ü Having regard to the third ACP-EEC Convention (1), ü Having regard to the balance sheets and revenue and expenditure accounts of the sixth and seventh European Development Funds for the 1996 financial year (SEC(97) 0938 ü C4-0274/97), ü Having regard to the report and the Statement of Assurance of the Court of Auditors concerning the financial year 1996 and the replies of the institutions (2), ü Having regard to the Recommendation of the Council of 9 March 1998 (C4-0167/98), ü Having regard to the report of the Committte on Budgetary Control and the opinion of the Committee on Development and Cooperation (A4-0091/98), 1. Gives discharge to the Commission in respect of the financial management of the sixth European Development Fund for the financial year 1996 on the basis of the following amounts: BALANCE SHEET OF THE SIXTH EDF AT 31 DECEMBER 1996 ASSETS (ECU 1 000) SITUATION AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1996 Grants Loans Stabex Sysmin Administrative costs Liquid assets Other current assets Items under verification LIABILITIES Contributions called up Other income Transfers to the seventh EDF Amount due to the sixth EDF Other debtors (interest under verification) SUBTOTAL 4 130 078 924 402 1 451 123 95 855 2 340 6 603 798 402 493 879 573 33 816 TOTAL 7 919 680 7 560 000 539 838 – 180 158 ü ü TOTAL 7 919 680 (1) OJ L 86, 31. 3. 1986. (2) JO C 348, 18. 11. 1997 (Volume I, Chapter 12 and Volume II, Part II). 16. 5. 98 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 146/27 USE OF RESOURCES ü SIXTH EDF AT 31 DECEMBER 1996 Breakdown of funds Initial appropriation Resources or reductions at 31 December 1996 Resources or reductions during 1996 New situation Total ACP Total OCT 7 400 000 000,00 380 554 371,58 35 599 450,38 7 816 153 821,96 100 000 000,00 3 526 646,39 0,00 103 526 646,39 Total 7 500 000 000,00 384 081 017,97 35 599 450,38 7 919 680 468,35 2. Records its observations in the resolution which forms part of this Decision; 3. Instructs its President to forward this Decision and the resolution containing its observations to the Commission, the Council, the Court of Auditors and the European Investment Bank and to have them published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (L series). The Secretary-General Julian PRIESTLEY The President José María GIL-ROBLES