PURPOSE: definitive adoption (EU, Euratom) 2018/1577 of amending budget No 4 of the European Union for the financial year 2018, accompanying the proposal to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania and Poland.
NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Definitive adoption (EU, Euratom) 2017/2121 of Draft amending budget No 4 to the general budget 2018.
CONTENT: the European Parliament notes that Amending Budget No 4 of the European Union for the financial year 2018 has been definitively adopted.
The amending budget concerns the proposal to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Bulgaria and Lithuania due to floods, Greece due to the earthquakes in Kos and Poland following the storms in 2017. It aims to reinforce budget line 13 06 01 "Assistance to Member States in the event of major natural disasters with serious repercussions on living conditions, the natural environment and the economy" by an amount of EUR 33 992 206, both in commitment appropriations and in payment appropriations.