Budgetary discipline: mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund for Slovakia after a natural disaster

This document consists of a Commission staff working paper on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund in order to give assistance to Slovakia which was affected by violent storms in 2004. The Commission is proposing that EUR 5 667 578 be provided from the Solidarity Fund to be allocated under heading 3 of the financial perspective. The Commission will present an amending budget in order to enter specific commitment appropriations in the 2005 budget, as required by point 4 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 (please refer to BUD/2005/2126).