Verbatim report of proceedings

Thursday, 28 April 2016 - Brussels

Discharge 2014: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (A8-0086/2016 - Derek Vaughan)

  Daniel Dalton (ECR), in writing. ‒ I voted to postpone discharge on this report today because the European Court of Auditors did not give the EU budget as a whole a positive statement of assurance. The level of error for the year 2014 was estimated to be 4.4%, which, whilst a slight improvement on 2013, is still too high. It is the job of the Parliament to verify that the EU budget was spent in accordance with the rules and in line with the principles of sound financial management, and unfortunately the Court of Auditors found that was not the case for the year 2014. We need more simplification of key areas of financial management in the EU budget and a stronger focus on tackling parts of the budget with a higher risk of problems.