date:May 12, 2012
The European Parliament yesterday backed a decision made by its Budgetary Control committee in April topostpone the discharge or sign off - EFSAs budget spend in 2010. The Parma-based agency received EU funding of just under 73m for the year.
EFSA said it remained committed to transparency and vowed to continue working with Strasbourg to resolve the issue.
Conflict of interest
The MEP committee report last month censured EFSA over what it considered a conflict of interest by the then mana