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26.11.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
313/27
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
of 25 October 2011
on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Medicines Agency for
the financial year 2009
(2011/758/EU)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,
— having regard to the final annual accounts of the European Medicines Agency for the financial year
2009,
— having regard to the Court of Auditors’ report on the annual accounts of the European Medicines
Agency for the financial year 2009, together with the Agency’s replies ( 1 ),
— having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 15 February 2011 (05892/2011 — C7-0052/2011),
— having regard to its decision of 10 May 2011 ( 2 ) postponing the discharge decision for the financial year
2009, and the replies by the Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency,
— having regard to Article 276 of the EC Treaty and Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union,
— having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities ( 3 ), and in particular
Article 185 thereof,
— having regard to Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 )
establishing a European Medicines Agency and in particular Article 68 thereof,
— having regard to Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the
framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European
Communities ( 5 ), and in particular Article 94 thereof,
— having regard to the letter of the Chair of the Agency’s Management Board to the Chair of the
Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament of 17 June 2011 (EMA/441533/2011),
— having regard to the Agency’s replies to Parliament’s resolution of 10 May 2011 ( 6 ) accompanying its
abovementioned Decision on discharge for the financial year 2009,
— having regard to the Annual Internal Audit Reports for 2009, 2008 and 2007 of the Commission’s
Internal Audit Service (IAS) on the Agency,
( 1 ) OJ C 338, 14.12.2010, p. 28.
( 2 ) OJ L 250, 27.9.2011, p. 173.
( 3 ) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
( 4 ) OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1.
( 5 ) OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 72.
( 6 ) OJ L 250, 27.9.2011, p. 174.

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— having regard to the final follow-up report on the audits of 2009, 2008 and 2006 of the IAS on the
Agency,
— having regard to Rule 77 of, and Annex VI to, its Rules of Procedure,
— having regard to the second report of the Committee on Budgetary Control (A7-0329/2011),
1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency discharge in respect of the implemen
tation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2009;
2. Sets out its observations in the resolution below;
3. Instructs its President to forward this Decision and the Resolution that forms an integral part of it to the
Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency, the Council, the Commission and the Court of
Auditors, and to arrange for their publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (L series).
The President
The Secretary-General
Jerzy BUZEK
Klaus WELLE

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