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

PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 7 of the European Union for the financial year 2010.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2011/108/EU, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament definitively adopted amending budget 7/2010 of the European Union, in accordance with its resolution dated 24 November 2010 (please refer to the summary of the resolution).

This amending budget covers:

• mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for an amount of EUR 13 022 500 million in commitment and payment appropriations relating to the effects of severe flooding affecting Ireland in November 2009;
• a corresponding reduction in payment appropriations from the line 04 02 01 — Completion of European Social Fund (ESF) — Objective 1 (2000 to 2006).