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

PURPOSE: to conclude an Interinstitutional agreement to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund with a view to giving assistance to Slovakia after it was hit by violent storms in 2004. 

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2005/706/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund.

 CONTENT: This decision aims at mobilising up to EUR 5,667,578 with a view to giving assistance to Slovakia after it was hit by violent storms in 2004.  These funds will be included in the 2005 budget by means of the amending budget approved on the same day (see BUD/2005/2126).