PURPOSE: to adopt amending budget No 1/2017 to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to the United Kingdom, Cyprus and Portugal hit by natural disasters.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Definitive adoption (EU, Euratom) 2017/851 of amending budget No 1 of the European Union for the financial year 2017.
CONTENT: this amending budget 1/2017 concerns the intervention of the EU Solidarity Fund for a total amount of EUR 71 524 810 to assist the United Kingdom faced with flooding in December 2015 and January 2016, and Cyprus and Madeira faced with fires between October 2015 and August 2016.
The corresponding appropriations are allocated to 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 or the economy.