Amending budget 4/2017: mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund for Italy

PURPOSE: adoption of amending budget No 4 for the year 2017 concerning assistance to Italy following a series of earthquakes.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Definitive adoption (EU, Euratom) 2017/2121 of amending budget No 4 of the European Union for the financial year 2017.

CONTENT: the European Parliament definitively adopted amending budget No 4 of the European Union for the financial year 2017 in accordance with its resolution of 13 September 2017 (please see the summary of the resolution).

As a reminder, this amending budget 4/2017 formally enters in the general budget 2017 EUR 1 166 797 579 in commitment and payment appropriations to cover the budgetary needs to Italy following a series of earthquakes that took place between August 2016 and January 2017 in the regions Abruzzo, Lazio, Marche and Umbria.

The corresponding appropriations are to be recorded under Article 13 06 01 (EU Solidarity Fund - Assistance to Member States in the event of a major natural disaster with serious repercussions on living conditions, the natural environment or the economy), after the deduction of the advance already paid in 2016 (EUR 30 million).

This amending budget fully redeploys the necessary payment appropriations within the 2017 Union budget and replenishes the negative reserve activated in amending budget No 1/2017 (EUR 70 402 434) from the budget lines for the 2007-2013 structural funds programmes.