Amending budget 3/2019: assistance to Romania, Italy and Austria

PURPOSE: definitive adoption of amending budget No 3 of the European Union for the 2019 financial year.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Definitive adoption (EU, Euratom) 2019/1818 of amending budget No 3 of the European Union for the financial year 2019.

CONTENT: Parliament noted that amending budget No 3 of the European Union for the 2019 financial year had been definitively adopted.

Amending budget No 3 accompanies Decision (EU) 2019/1817 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Austria, Italy and Romania following the natural disasters that hit these countries in 2018.

The amending budget concerns the intervention of the EU Solidarity Fund for a total amount of EUR 293.5 million in commitment and payment appropriations to assist Romania for floods in the north-eastern region, Italy for floods and landslides following torrential rains, from the northern Alpine areas to Sicily, and Austria for the same phenomena that affected the Alpine / southern regions during 2018.

The corresponding appropriations are allocated in accordance with 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 and the economy).