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"The Council administration should bow to democratic accountability and the EU’s citizens as far as use of the EU’s financial resources is concerned. Parliament is the only directly elected institution of the EU, and it grants discharge for fulfilment of the EU’s general budget. It is pleasing that the Council submitted the requested documents to Parliament, and that the Presidency of the Council then took part in the discussion in the plenary on granting discharge for 2009. Parliament postponed the discharge, however, as it had not received any responses to a number of pending issues concerning the 2009 Council discharge.
In my opinion, a distinction must be maintained in respect of the different roles of Parliament and the Council in the discharge procedure and the Council administration (its General Secretariat), as with the other administrations of Union institutions, including the Parliament administration itself, should be subject to the control of the Court of Auditors and, via the discharge procedure set out in the TFEU, should be fully accountable to Union citizens for the implementation of their respective budgets. In light of the other two reports, among other things, the Committee on Budgetary Control refuses to grant the Secretary-General of the Council discharge in respect of the implementation of the Council budget for the financial year 2009."@en1
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