(3) The Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 allows mobilisation of the Fund within an
annual ceiling of EUR 1 billion.
(4) The storm disaster in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on 8 January 2005 fulfils the criteria for
mobilising the Fund,
HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The Fund shall be mobilised to provide the sum of EUR 92 880 830 in commitment appropriations from
the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2005.
Article 2
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Strasbourg, on 17 November 2005
For the European Parliament
The PresidentFor the Council
The President
P6_TA(2005)0438
Draft amending budget No 7/2005
European Parliament resolution on draft amending budget No 7/2005 of the European Union for
the financial year 2005 (Storm in Northern Europe) (13489/2005 —C6-0358/2005 —2005/2172
(BUD))
The European Parliament ,
— having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 272(4),
penultimate subparagraph, thereof,
— having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular
Article 177 thereof,
— having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial
Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (1), and in particular Arti-
cles 37 and 38 thereof,
— having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2005, as finally
adopted on 16 December 2004 (2),
— having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the
Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (3),
— having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parlia-
ment, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fundsupplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, theCouncil and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (
4),
— having regard to the decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2005 to
mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund to the amount of EUR 92 880 830 to grant financialassistance to Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in order to help those countries to cope with thesevere damage caused by a major storm on 8 January 2005,
(1) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 60, 8.3.2005, p. 1.
(3) OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1. Agreement amended by Decision 2003/429/EC (OJ L 147, 14.6.2003, p. 25).
(4) OJ C 283, 20.11.2002, p. 1.C 280 E/452 EN 18.11.2006 Official Journal of the European Union
Thursday 17 November 2005
— having regard to preliminary draft amending budget No 6/2005 of the European Union for the finan-
cial year 2005, which the Commission presented on 8 September 2005 (SEC(2005)1083),
— having regard to draft amending budget No 7/2005, which the Council established on 7 November
2005 (13489/2005 —C6-0358/2005),
— having regard to Rule 69 of and Annex IV to its Rules of Procedure,
— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A6-0321/2005),
A. whereas the European Union should show its solidarity with the population of regions of Member
States affected by natural disasters, which have serious repercussions on living conditions, the naturalenvironment or the economy,
B. whereas the appropriate budgetary resources for the European Union's financial assistance have been
mobilised in accordance with the provisions of the European Union Solidarity Fund and of the Inter-institutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 relating to its financing,
C. whereas the purpose of draft amending budget No 7/2005 is to formally enter these budgetary
resources in the 2005 budget,
1. Welcomes draft amending budget No 7/2005, the purpose of which is to enter without delay the
budgetary resources mobilised from the European Union Solidarity Fund in the 2005 budget so that thoseaffected by these natural disasters can be assisted;
2. Approves draft amending budget No 7/2005 unamended;
3. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.
P6_TA(2005)0439
Weapons of mass destruction
European Parliament resolution on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: A role for the
European Parliament (2005/2139(INI))
The European Parliament ,
— having regard to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), describing the proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their means of delivery as a threat to international peaceand security;
— having regard to the European Security Strategy (ESS), which states that the proliferation of WMD is
potentially the greatest threat to our security;
— having regard to the implementation of the ESS and in particular the European Union Strategy against
the proliferation of WMD (the EU WMD Strategy) adopted by the European Council on 12 December
2003,
— having regard to the fact that all European Union Member States are States Parties to the major multi-
lateral agreements that make up the non-proliferation regime, namely the 1968 Nuclear Non-Prolife-ration Treaty (NPT), the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the 1993 ChemicalWeapons Convention (CWC) and the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and that twoMember States, the UK and France, are nuclear-weapon states as defined in the NPT, and that UStactical weapons are stationed on the territories of many more Member States: Germany, Italy, theUnited Kingdom, Greece, the Netherlands and Belgium and states applying for EU membership, Turkeyin particular;18.11.2006 EN C 280 E/453 Official Journal of the European Union
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