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27.9.2011 Official
Journal
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the
European
Union L
250/31
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
of 10 May 2011
on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the
financial year 2009, Section III — Commission
(2011/550/EU, Euratom)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT,
— having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2009 ( 1 ),
— having regard to the annual accounts of the European Union for the financial year 2009 (SEC(2010)
963 – C7-0211/2010) ( 2 ),
— having regard to the Commission’s report on the follow-up to the discharge for the 2008 financial year
(COM(2010) 650), and to the Commission staff working documents accompanying that report
(SEC(2010) 1437 and SEC(2010) 1438),
— having regard to the Commission communication of 2 June 2010 entitled ‘Synthesis of the
Commission’s management achievements in 2009’ (COM(2010) 281),
— having regard to the Commission’s annual report to the discharge authority on internal audits carried
out in 2009 (COM(2010) 447), and to the Commission staff working document accompanying that
report (SEC(2010) 994),
— having regard to the Commission’s report on Member States’ replies to the Court of Auditors’ 2009
annual report (COM(2011) 104),
— having regard to the Annual Report of the Court of Auditors on the implementation of the budget
concerning the financial year 2009, together with the institutions’ replies ( 3 ), and to the Court of
Auditors’ special reports,
— having regard to the statement of assurance as to the reliability of the accounts and the legality and
regularity of the underlying transactions provided by the Court of Auditors pursuant to Article 287 of
the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ( 4 ),
— having regard to the Commission communication of 26 May 2010 entitled ‘More or less controls?
Striking the right balance between the administrative costs of control and the risk of error’ (COM(2010)
261), and to the Commission staff working documents accompanying that communication (SEC(2010)
640 and SEC(2010) 641),
— having regard to the report of the Court of Auditors on the annual accounts of the European Schools
for the financial year 2009 together with the Schools’ replies,
— having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 15 February 2011 on discharge to be given to the
Commission in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2009 (05891/2011 –
C7-0053/2011),
— having regard to Articles 274, 275 and 276 of the EC Treaty, Article 17(1) of the Treaty on European
Union, Articles 317, 318 and 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Articles
179a and 180b of the Euratom Treaty,
— 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 ( 5 ) as amended by Council
Regulations (EC, Euratom) No 1995/2006 ( 6 ) and (EC) No 1525/2007 ( 7 ), and in particular Articles 55,
145, 146 and 147 thereof,
( 1 ) OJ L 69, 13.3.2009.
( 2 ) OJ C 308, 12.11.2010, p. 1.
( 3 ) OJ C 303, 9.11.2010, p. 1.
( 4 ) OJ C 308, 12.11.2010, p. 129.
( 5 ) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
( 6 ) OJ L 390, 30.12.2006, p. 1.
( 7 ) OJ L 343, 27.12.2007, p. 9.

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— having regard to Rule 76 of, and Annex VI to, its Rules of Procedure,
— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgetary Control and the opinions of the other
committees concerned (A7-0134/2011),
A. whereas pursuant to Article 17(1) of the Treaty on European Union the Commission shall execute the
budget and manage programmes and shall do so, pursuant to Article 317 of the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European Union in cooperation with the Member States on its own responsibility,
having regard to the principle of sound financial management,
1. Grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the
European Union for the financial year 2009;
2. Sets out its observations in the resolution that forms an integral part of the Decisions on discharge in
respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2009,
Section III — Commission and executive agencies, and in its Resolution of 10 May 2011 on the Court of
Auditors’ special reports in the context of the 2009 Commission discharge ( 1 );
3. Instructs its President to forward this Decision, and the resolutions that form an integral part of it, to the
Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, 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
( 1 ) Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0195 (see page 63 of this Official Journal).

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