CELEX: 32005D0706
Language: en
Date: 2005-09-07 00:00:00
Title: 2005/706/EC: Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund according to 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

14.10.2005   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 269/21
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
   
   of 7 September 2005
   on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund according to 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
   (2005/706/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)
            
            
               The European Union has created a Solidarity Fund (the Fund) to show solidarity with the population of regions struck by disasters.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Slovakia submitted an application to mobilise the Fund on 24 January 2005, following a disaster caused by a storm.
            
         
               (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 Slovakia in November 2004 fulfils the criteria for mobilising the European Union Solidarity Fund,
            
         HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   The European Union Solidarity Fund shall be mobilised to provide the sum of EUR 5 667 578 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, 7 September 2005.
      
         
            For the European Parliament
         
         
            The President
         
         J. BORRELL FONTELLES
         
      
      
         
            For the Council
         
         
            The President
         
         D. ALEXANDER
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ C 283, 20.11.2002, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 311, 14.11.2002, p. 3.