Amending budget 1/2006: mobilisation of the Union Solidarity Fund following the floods in Bulgaria, Romania and Austria

 The committee adopted the report by Giovanni PITTELLA (PES, IT) approving Draft Amending Budget No 1/2006 unamended. MEPs said that the EU should "show its solidarity with the population of regions of Member States affected by natural disasters which have serious repercussions on living conditions, the natural environment or the economy". They therefore approved the decision to draw up an Amending Budget in order to enter in the 2006 budget the budgetary resources mobilised from the European Solidarity Fund in order to help  Bulgaria, Romania and Austria cope with the severe damage caused by floods between April and August 2005.