Amending budget 1/2009: mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for Romania, financing

PURPOSE: final adoption of amending budget 1/2009.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2009/318/EC, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament has definitively concluded the amending budget 1/2009 of the European Union in accordance with its resolution adopted on 11 March 2009 (please refer to the summary of the resolution).

This amending budget aims to mobilise the EU Solidarity Fund for an amount of EUR 11.8 million in commitment and payment appropriations relating to the effects of the floods that hit Romania in July 2008. It also provides for a corresponding reduction in payment appropriations of EUR 11.8 million from line 13 03 16 - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)-Convergence.

This amending budget is therefore budgetary neutral.