Legal provisions of COM(2019)125 - Amendment of Decision 1313/2013/EU on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism

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Article 1

Decision No 1313/2013/EU is amended as follows:

(1)Article 19 is amended as follows:

(a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

“1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Union Mechanism for the period 2021 to 2027 shall be EUR 1 400 000 000 in current prices”.

(b) paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 are deleted.

(2)Article 20a 12 is amended as follows:

(a)paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

“1. The recipients of Union funding shall acknowledge the origin and ensure the visibility of the Union funding (in particular when promoting the actions and their results) by providing coherent, effective and proportionate targeted information to multiple audiences, including the media and the public. Any assistance or funding provided under this Decision shall also give appropriate visibility to the Union, including prominence to the Union emblem for those capacities referred to under Article 11, 12 and point (c) of Article 21(2).

2. The Commission shall implement information and communication actions relating to this Decision, and its actions and results. Financial resources allocated to this Decision shall also contribute to the corporate communication of the political priorities of the Union, as far as they are related to the objectives referred to in Article 3(1).

A communication strategy shall be developed by the Commission in order to make the tangible results of the actions taken under the Union Mechanism visible to citizens.

3. The Commission shall award medals in order to recognise and honour long-standing commitments and extraordinary contributions to Union Civil Protection.”

(3)Article 30 13 is amended as follows:

(a)paragraph 2 is deleted;

(b)paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

“4. The delegation of power referred to in Article 21(3) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the Decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force”.

(c)paragraph 7 is replaced by the following:

“A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 21(3) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council”.

(4)Annex I is deleted.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

However, point (a) of Article 1(1) of this Decision shall apply from 1 January 2021.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.