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SECOND REPORT (2024/2030(DEC))

On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Union agencies for the financial year 2023

A-10-2025-0169

Committee on Budgetary Control · Rapporteur: Erik Marquardt

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The report grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum for the 2023 budget and approves closure of its accounts, with observations in a resolution. The resolution expresses concerns about OLAF investigation delays, governance failures, human resources irregularities, and conflict-of-interest management, and calls for corrective actions and transparency.

Committee position. The Committee on Budgetary Control proposes to grant discharge to the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum for the 2023 budget and to approve closure of accounts, with observations in a resolution.

Key points

  1. Parliament grants discharge to the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Asylum for the financial year 2023.
  2. Parliament approves the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Asylum for the financial year 2023.
  3. Deplores delayed access to OLAF's final report, which was only made available in March 2025 despite a request in December 2024, and insists on earlier access for effective oversight.
  4. Calls on OLAF to speed up investigations and sharing findings with the discharge authority, stressing that delays undermine parliamentary oversight.
  5. Calls on the Agency and OLAF to make an anonymised summary of the OLAF report publicly available where legally possible.
  6. Regrets the Management Board's decision not to implement OLAF's disciplinary recommendations, including not initiating disciplinary proceedings against the Executive Director, and calls for transparent reporting to Parliament.
  7. Calls on the Agency to inform the discharge authority of corrective actions implemented and planned, with deadlines, following the Executive Director's Vision Statement.
  8. Deplores weaknesses in conflict-of-interest management and flawed handling of complaints by the Management Board, insisting on a robust framework.
  9. Deplores human resources irregularities, especially in appointment and selection procedures breaching Staff Regulations, and calls for strict, transparent, merit-based recruitment.
  10. Calls for an independent internal ethics function and robust whistle-blower protection in line with Directive (EU) 2019/1937.
  11. Calls for systematic exit interviews for resigning staff to address high turnover, with reporting to the discharge authority.

Who is affected

  • The European Union Agency for Asylum and its Executive Director, who must implement corrective actions and report to Parliament.
  • The Management Board of the Agency, which must follow up on recommendations and improve oversight.
  • OLAF, which is called on to speed up investigations and provide timely access to reports.
  • The European Commission, which has seats on the Management Board and is asked to support board members and explore shared services.

Legal basis: Article 319 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union