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  "legislation": "eudn/2005/706",
  "legislation_title": "Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (2005/706/EC)",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council\nof 7 September 2005\non the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure\n(2005/706/EC)\nTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure, and in particular point 3 thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 of 11 November 2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe European Union has created a Solidarity Fund (the Fund) to show solidarity with the population of regions struck by disasters.\n(2)\nSlovakia submitted an application to mobilise the Fund on 24 January 2005, following a disaster caused by a storm.\n(3)\nThe Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 allows mobilisation of the Fund within an annual ceiling of EUR 1 billion.\n(4)\nThe storm disaster in Slovakia in November 2004 fulfils the criteria for mobilising the European Union Solidarity Fund,\nHAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ C 283, 20.11.2002, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 311, 14.11.2002, p. 3."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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