Resolution informing the Economic and Social Committee of the reasons for the postponement of the decision concerning discharge in respect of the general budget of the European Union (Section VI - Part A) for the financial year 1997 Section VI - Part A: Economic and Social Committee
C 279/132 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 10. 1999 Tuesday 4 May 1999 III. Resolution informing the Economic and Social Committee of the reasons for the postponement of the decision concerning discharge in respect of the general budget of the European Union (Section VI − Part A) for the financial year 1997 Section VI − Part A: Economic and Social Committee The European Parliament, − having regard to Article 272(10) of the EC Treaty, − having regard to Article 22(2) and (3) of the Financial Regulation, − having regard to the revenue and expenditure account and the balance sheet for the 1997 financial year (SEC(98)0521 − C4-0353/98), − having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 9 March 1998 (C4-0168/98), − having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A4-0199/99), A. whereas the serious nature of the conclusions of the Court of Auditors’ annual report for 1996 on the Economic and Social Committee’s management of appropriations led the European Parliament to postpone its decision concerning the discharge for 1996 (1), B. whereas one of the main conditions which the European Parliament imposed on the Economic and Social Committee for the grant of discharge was that the matter should be referred to UCLAF ‘to enable the extent of administrative involvement or responsibility to be fully determined as regards the entry into the accounts, the commitment, the authorisation and the payment of expenditure’ (2), C. whereas, in its comments of 23 November 1998 on Parliament’s position concerning the discharge for 1996, the Economic and Social Committee considered that it did not seem appropriate to refer the matter to UCLAF, 1. Decides to postpone the discharge decision in respect of the 1997 financial year until it has received the conclusions of the UCLAF inquiry, under the terms set out in its resolution on postponement of discharge 1996; Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Court of Auditors and the 2. Economic and Social Committee. (1) Resolution of 7 October 1998, OJ C 328, 26. 10. 1998, p. 115. (2) ibid. , para. 2. (d) A4-0198/99 I. Decision giving discharge to the Commission in respect of the financial management of the sixth European Development Fund for the financial year 1997 The European Parliament, − having regard to the EC Treaty, − having regard to the third ACP-EEC Convention (1), − having regard to the balance sheets and accounts of the sixth and seventh European Development Funds for the financial year 1997 (COM(98)0442), − having regard to the report of the Court of Auditors concerning the financial year 1997 including the report on the activities of the sixth and seventh European Development Funds and the replies of the institutions (C4-0676/98) (2), (1) OJ L 86, 31. 3. 1986. (2) OJ C 349, 17. 11. 1998