Brussels, 12/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control invites the plenary session to grant the European Commission discharge for execution of the 1997 budget. The plenary will give its position next week on the Lousewies van der Laan report on 1997 discharge, a report adopted unanimously, less one abstention, on Tuesday by Cocobu. The report proposes that discharge be granted on the basis of the hypothesis of full implementation of administrative...