Amending budget 7/2010: mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund following flooding in Ireland

The European Parliament adopted by 596 votes to 5, with 2 abstentions, a resolution approving the Council's position on Draft amending budget No 8/2010 of the European Union for the financial year 2010, Section III – Commission.

It should be noted that this draft amending budget becomes draft amending budget 7/2010 and which is definitively adopted.

Parliament recalls that this draft amending budget covers the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for an amount of EUR 13 022 500 in commitment and payment appropriations relating to the effects of flooding in Ireland as well as a corresponding reduction in payment appropriations of the same amount from line 04 02 01 - Completion of European Social Fund (ESF) Objective 1 (2000-2006). The purpose of Draft amending budget No 8/2010 is to formally enter this budgetary adjustment into the 2010 budget.