Solidarity Fund: mobilisation for assistance to Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania following the storm of 8th January 2005

PURPOSE : to mobilize funds from the EU Solidarity Fund with a view to funding assistance measures following natural catastrophes in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

LEGISLATIVE ACT : Decision 2006/12/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 supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure

CONTENT :  Following a disaster caused by a storm. Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania submitted their applications to mobilise the Solidarity Fund, and the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 allows mobilisation of the Fund within an annual ceiling of EUR 1 billion. Since the storm disaster in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on 8 January 2005 fulfils the criteria for mobilising the Fund, this Decision provides that the Fund shall be mobilised to provide the sum of EUR 92 880 830 in commitment appropriations from the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2005.