2003/785/EC: Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2003 on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund in accordance with point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (damage caused by the Prestige oil tanker, by the earthquake in Molise and Apulia, and by the eruption of Mount Etna)
Date: 2003-10-09
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: Italy, Spain, adaptation of financial perspectives, emergency aid, financing, fund (EU), man-made disaster, natural disaster

L 290/40

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

8.11.2003

II

(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 9 October 2003

on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund in accordance with point 3 of the Interinstitutional
Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commis-
sion on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional
Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure
(damage caused by the Prestige oil tanker, by the earthquake in Molise and Apulia, and by the
eruption of Mount Etna)

(2003/785/EC)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the
Interinstitutional Agreement of 7
November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council
and the Commission on the financing of the European Union
Solidarity Fund, supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement
of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of
the budgetary procedure (1), and in particular point 3 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 of 11
November 2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity
Fund (2),

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The European Union has created a European Union Soli-
darity Fund (the ‘Fund’)
to show solidarity with the
population of regions struck by disasters.

The Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002
allows the mobilisation of the Fund within the annual
ceiling of EUR 1 billion.

Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 contains the provisions
whereby the Fund may be mobilised.

(4)

The damage caused by the Prestige oil tanker, by the
earthquake in Molise and Apulia, and by the eruption of
Mount Etna meets the conditions for mobilising the
Fund,

HAVE DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

For the general budget of the European Union for the financial
year 2003, the European Union Solidarity Fund shall be mobi-
lised to provide the sum of EUR 56,250 million in commit-
ment appropriations.

Article 2

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Done at Brussels, 9 October 2003.

For the European Parliament

For the Council

The President

P. COX

The President

F. FRATTINI

(1) OJ C 283, 20.11.2002, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 311, 14.11.2002, p. 3.