2011 discharge: EU general budget, European Ombudsman

This dossier concerns the 2011 discharge for the European Ombudsman under the EU general budget. The amendments postpone the discharge decision, address appropriation commitment and payment utilisation rates, financial planning, reporting on unused interpretation services, internal auditor recommendations on processing payment requests, the increasing average length of inquiries, publication of the Ombudsman's data in machine-readable form, and a table of human resources broken down by category, grade, sex and nationality.