The case was unusual, according to veterans' advocacy groups, for two reasons: the amount of attention it received, and the granting of a discharge that will allow Specialist Cherry, 24, to keep most benefits, including lifetime medical benefits.
With the granting of power there comes attendant obligation - the obligation to discharge the power bestowed on the officer fairly, impartially and honestly without fear or favour, prejudice or disfavour.
The biggest was probably the granting of full independence to Australia's central bank in 1996, and the bank has discharged its inflation-controlling mission admirably and sometimes bravely.
The difficult and laborious process of granting discharge to the Council shows what the European Parliament wants.
Anyone who votes in favour of granting discharge to the Council now will be giving their support to precisely this situation, where Parliament stands before the Council making meek requests.
I would like to stress that the procedure of granting the Council discharge also shows the way in which Parliament finds out about new areas of the Council's work, and that Parliament does not want to be excluded from monitoring and supervising the Council's spending in any area of its activity.
(PL) Mr President, I endorse the draft decision of the European Parliament granting discharge to the Secretary-General of the Council in respect of implementation of the budget for the financial year 2007.
This week, a review board issued a ruling that could lead to overturning the convictions of all 28 soldiers, granting honorable discharges and providing them with back pay.
- (FR) We voted against the joint motion for a resolution because it means granting a full discharge to the European Commission in advance and we disapprove of that in terms of both form and content.
