Amending budget 7/2011: mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund for Spain and Italy

PURPOSE: the definitive adoption of the European Union’s amending budget 7/2011.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2012/101/EU, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament has definitively adopted amending budget 7/2011, in accordance with its resolution of 13 December 2011 (please refer to the summary of the resolution). This amending budget aims at mobilising the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF) for an amount of EUR 38 million in commitment and payment appropriations in order to mitigate the effects of the earthquake that hit Murcia, Spain, and of the flooding in the Veneto region, Italy in autumn 2010. The necessary appropriations shall be redeployed from the heading 05 04 05 01(Rural development programmes).