Financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and Research Fund for Coal and Steel: implementation of Protocol No 37

Through this consent procedure, Parliament gives its consent to the draft Council decision laying down the measures necessary for the implementation of Protocol No 37 on the financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and on the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and repealing Decision No 2003/76/EC. It acts on a request for consent submitted by the Council under Article 2 of Protocol No 37 and on the recommendation of the Committee on Budgets. Parliament instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.