Text · Opinion parliamentary committee
On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023
Document CULT-AD-765305 · 2024/2030(DEC)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee CULT-AD-765305
- Date
- 5 February 2025
- Committee
- Committee on Culture and Education
- Rapporteur
- Nela Riehl
- Dossier
- 2024/2030(DEC)
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- Formats
- Official page PDF Word
- Subject matter
- BUDG
- Reference
- 2024/2030(DEC)
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The Committee on Culture and Education gives its opinion on granting discharge to the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union for 2023, welcoming its work on multilingualism and AI, while urging improvements in procurement, gender balance, and environmental certification.
Position. The Committee on Culture and Education calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate its suggestions into the motion for a resolution, effectively supporting discharge with conditions.
Key points
- Notes the Centre's efforts to promote multilingualism, including developing terminology in specialised areas to improve translation quality.
- Welcomes the setting up of a working group on artificial intelligence in June 2023 and its continuation in a new advisory group on AI.
- Is pleased with the multi-engine machine translation strategy that combines on-site translation with human translators, and encourages continued efforts.
- Welcomes the Court of Auditors' confirmation of the legality and regularity of the Centre's accounts for 2023.
- Observes with concern procurement findings leading to irregular payments; encourages improved contract monitoring and procurement procedures, recommending robust oversight and staff training.
- Notes three open observations not yet remedied and encourages compliance with the ECA's corrective action recommendation.
- Notes with concern the underrepresentation of women in senior and middle management and on the management board; urges a gender balance strategy with measurable targets and proactive recruitment.
- Welcomes the 2023-2024 internal control and anti-fraud action plan focusing on staff awareness, fraud prevention, and ethics.
- Notes the contracting of a specialist consultancy for an EMAS-compliant environment management system and strongly encourages pursuing an EMAS certificate.
Who is affected
- The Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union, which must address procurement, gender balance, and environmental certification.
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Opinion
The Committee on Culture and Education calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following into its motion for a resolution:
Discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union
1. Notes the efforts of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (‘the Centre’) to enable and promote multilingualism in the Union, for example as regards communications of the Union agencies and the development of terminology in specialised subject areas to improve the quality of translations;
2. Welcomes the setting up of a working group on artificial intelligence (AI) in June 2023 and the decision to take the work of that group further in a new advisory group on AI;
3. Is pleased with the Centre’s multi-engine machine translation strategy, which allows for clients’ documents to be translated on site in combination with the intervention of human translators, which is essential for delivering high-quality translations; encourages the Centre to continue its efforts in that area;
4. Welcomes the fact that the Court of Auditors, in its annual report on EU agencies for the financial year 2023, confirms the legality and regularity of the revenue and payments underlying the Centre’s accounts;
5. Observes with concern the Court’s findings with regard to various public procurement procedures, which led to irregular payments; encourages the Centre to continue its efforts in improving its monitoring of contracts and its procurement procedures; recommends the establishment of robust oversight mechanisms and regular training for staff to ensure compliance and mitigate risks;
6. Notes that the Centre has still three open observations that have not yet been remedied; encourages the Centre to comply with the ECA's recommendation for corrective action;
7. Notes with concern the underrepresentation of women in senior and middle management positions as well as on the management board; urges the Centre to implement a comprehensive gender balance strategy, including measurable targets and proactive recruitment initiatives, to ensure equitable representation at all levels;
8. Welcomes the fact that the Centre approved its 2023-2024 internal control and anti-fraud action plan, with a focus on raising awareness among staff with regard to identifying and registering exemptions and non-compliance events, on the prevention of fraud and on ethics;
Back matter, 2
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| Date adopted | 30.1.2025 | |
| Result of final vote | +: –: 0: | 20 0 2 |
| Members present for the final vote | Nikolaos Anadiotis, Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Alma Ezcurra Almansa, Sunčana Glavak, Catherine Griset, Hannes Heide, Giusi Princi, Emma Rafowicz, Sabrina Repp, Nela Riehl, Sandro Ruotolo, Malika Sorel, Marco Squarta, Eugen Tomac, Zala Tomašič, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski | |
| Substitutes present for the final vote | Maria Guzenina, Erik Marquardt, Carolina Morace, Sabine Verheyen | |
| Members under Rule 216(7) present for the final vote | Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Elisabeth Grossmann |
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20 · For
- No group
- Nikolaos Anadiotis
- EPP
- Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral, Alma Ezcurra Almansa, Sunčana Glavak, Giusi Princi, Zala Tomašič, Sabine Verheyen, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski
- Patriots
- Catherine Griset, Malika Sorel
- Renew
- Eugen Tomac
- S&D
- Elisabeth Grossmann, Maria Guzenina, Hannes Heide, Emma Rafowicz, Sabrina Repp, Sandro Ruotolo
- The Left
- Carolina Morace
- Greens
- Erik Marquardt, Nela Riehl
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European Parliament (2025). “OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023”. Text, 5 February 2025. docId CULT-AD-765305. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/CULT-AD-765305 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/CULT-AD-765305 (CC BY 4.0).
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author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2023}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-02-05},
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url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/CULT-AD-765305},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
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