Amending budget 7/2008: mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund for Martinique and Guadeloupe, financing

PURPOSE: final adoption of amending budget 7/2008.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2008/869/EC, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament has definitively concluded the amending budget 7/2008 of the European Union in accordance with its resolution adopted on 21 October 2008 (please refer to the summary of the resolution).

This amending budget aims to mobilise of the EU Solidarity Fund for an amount of EUR 12.78 million in commitment and payment appropriations relating to the effects of hurricane "Dean" in Guadeloupe and Martinique in August 2007. It also provides for a corresponding reduction in payment appropriations of EUR 12.78 million from the line 13 04 02 Cohesion Fund.

This amending budget is therefore budgetary neutral.