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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2025)0250 – C100102/2025 – 2025/0138(BUD))

On the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Union 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

BUDG-PR-774284

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Andrzej Halicki

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This draft report concerns the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to assist Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina after floods in 2024. It approves the Commission proposal and calls for urgent financial assistance. The report stresses the need for climate mitigation and adaptation, and calls for an expanded EUSF budget and faster damage assessment and payments.

Committee position. The rapporteur recommends swift approval of the Commission proposal for a decision, leading to rapid mobilisation of the amounts, and calls for particular urgency in delivering the financial contribution.

Key points

  1. Expresses solidarity with victims and authorities affected by the floods in Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  2. Welcomes the decision as a tangible form of Union solidarity and stresses the importance of communicating its benefits to the public.
  3. Calls on Member States and the Commission to invest in climate mitigation and adaptation, and considers that the EUSF budget should be expanded.
  4. Stresses that the EUSF is only curative and that the Union should support prevention policies; calls for synergies with other funds and for assessing reallocations within Recovery and Resilience plans.
  5. Recalls that RESTORE and EAFRD measures provide additional assistance and stresses that Member States should use these opportunities.
  6. Calls for rapid and solid damage assessment and for reducing the average time for releasing advance payments while protecting the Union budget.
  7. Stresses the urgent need to release immediate financial assistance through the EUSF to reach affected regions in a timely manner.
  8. Approves the decision annexed to the resolution.

Who is affected

  • Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina receive EUSF assistance for flood damages.
  • Member States and the Commission are called to invest in climate measures and to improve EUSF delivery.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 280 740 903 proposed for mobilisation from the EUSF.
  • Austrian damages: EUR 1 711.6 million.
  • Polish damages: EUR 3.04 billion.
  • Czech damages: EUR 2.82 billion.
  • Slovak damages: EUR 84.3 million.
  • Moldovan damages: EUR 7.8 million.
  • Bosnian damages: EUR 841.85 million.
  • 25% of annual EUSF allocation (EUR 291.8 million for 2025) remains available on 1 October.

Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund; Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093, Article 9; Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020, point 10.