8 Amendments of Rosanna CONTE related to 2020/2087(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF), established by Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 in order to provide financial assistance to Member States and accession countries undergoing major disasters, represents true European added value and the materialisation of a will, that has sometimesoften been lacking, to provide mutual assistance at Union level;
Amendment 15 #
C. noting with interest that, according to a recent survey, more than two thirds of Europeans believe that the European Union should equip itself with morarmark adequate resources to deal with crises such as COVID-19;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, however, the promptness at which the financial assistance is released also depends on the ability of potential beneficiaries to provide full estimates of the total amount of damage caused by the disaster as soon as possible, in spite of the difficulty of such operations in emergency situations, as well as on the quality of the official coordination structures set up in the states concerned;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. welcoming the Commission’s proposal to extend the scope of the EUSF to include health emergencies, so that this financial instrument can be used to provide assistance to populations affected by a pandemic, provided that such extension does not remove funds from emergencies caused by natural disasters;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to events such as COVID-19, which is severely affecting all of Europe, forest fires across the continent, including in unusual places such as the Arctic, and the series of violent earthquakes in Europe, particularly in Italy in 2016-2017, causing hundreds of deaths and some EUR 22 billion in damage, and in Croatia in March and December 2020; points out, moreover, that storms, extreme rainfall and flooding have caused considerable damage in many cities and valleys, such as storm Vaia which struck the Dolomites and Venetian Prealps in 2018, and that increasingly violent hurricanes have caused devastation in the outermost regions, such as Hurricane Irma in 2017 in Saint-Martin, and Hurricane Lorenzo in 2019 in the Azores, which were particularly destructive;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is of the view that the risks of natural, ecological and health disasters have now become systemic and that the least developed and most fragile territories, such as islands, mountainous regions and regions that are prone to intense seismic or volcanic activity are often the most affected by the impact of climate change;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to continue its work on simplifying the EUSF, with the aim of reducing the time needed in order to disburse the funds;