Considerations on COM(2025)250 - Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Moldova relating to floods occurred in September 2024 and Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to floods occurred in October 2024

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(1) The European Union Solidarity Fund ('the Fund') aims to enable the Union to respond in a rapid, efficient and flexible manner to emergency situations in order to show solidarity with the population of regions struck by major or regional natural disasters or major public health emergency.

(2) The Fund is not to exceed the ceilings laid down in Article 9 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2020/2093 11 .

(3) On 29 November 2024, Austria submitted an application to mobilise the Fund following the floods in September 2024.

(4) On 29 November 2024, Poland submitted an application to mobilise the Fund following the floods in September 2024.

(5) On 4 December 2024, Czechia submitted an application to mobilise the Fund following the floods in September 2024.

(6) On 7 December 2024, Slovakia submitted an application to mobilise the Fund following the floods in September 2024.

(7) On 5 December 2024, Moldova submitted an application to mobilise the Fund following the floods in September 2024.

(8) On 27 December 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina submitted an application to mobilise the Fund following the floods in October 2024.

(9) Those applications meet the conditions for providing a financial contribution from the Fund, as laid down in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002.

(10) The Fund should therefore be mobilised to provide a financial contribution to Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

(11) To minimise the time taken to mobilise the Fund, this Decision should apply from the date of its adoption.