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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund PDF (292 KB) DOC (362 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The Fund should contribute to the restoration of infrastructure to working order or to a state in which it will be better able to withstand natural disasters, including relocation, to the cleaning up of disaster- stricken zones and to the costs of the rescue services and for temporary accommodation for the population concerned during the whole implementation period. The time-span during which the accommodation of people made homeless by the disaster may be considered temporary should also be defined.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) It should also be specified that eligible operations should notmay include expenditure for technical assistance.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) CFor certain types of natural disaster, such as droughts, that are developing over a longer period of time before their disastrous effects are felt. P, or floods or severe frost that are in the nature of sustained disasters, provisions should be made to allow the use of the Fund also in such cases.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 2 – point 3
Article 2 – point 3
For the purposes of this Regulation, a ‘regional natural disaster’ shall mean any natural disaster resulting, in a region of a Member State or a country involved in accession negotiations with the Union at NUTS 2 level, or at the level of several directly neighbouring NUTS 3 regions that together form an area possessing the minimum characteristics of a NUTS 2 region, in direct damage in excess of 1,50 % of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP). Regional natural disaster shall also include any crossborder natural disaster at the level of directly neighbouring NUTS 3 regions of Member States or countries involved in accession negotiations with the Union, that together form an area possessing the minimum characteristics of a NUTS 2 region. Where the disaster concerns several regions at NUTS 2 or NUTS 3 level, the threshold shall be applied to the weighted average GDP of those regions.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 2 – point 4
Article 2 – point 4
Assistance from the Fund may also be mobilised for any natural disaster in an eligible State which is a major natural disaster or a regional natural disaster in a neighbouring Member State or a country involved in accession negotiations with the Union.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 4 – paragraph 1a a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1a a (new)
In the event of a sustained natural disaster (such as flooding), the ten-week application deadline referred to in paragraph 1 shall run from the date at which the public authorities of the eligible State have officially terminated the threat of natural disaster (by, for example, repealing the state of emergency declared by the Member State or regional authority, etc.).
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
The contribution from the Fund shall be used within onetwo years from the date on which the Commission has disbursed the full amount of the assistance. Any part of the contribution remaining unused by that deadline or found to be used for ineligible operations shall be recovered by the Commission from the beneficiary State.