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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2025)0855 – C100239/2025 – 2025/0318(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 Spain regarding the floods in the Valencia Region of Spain in October 2024 and France following the damages caused by cyclone Chido in Mayotte in December 2024 and cyclone Garance in Réunion in February 2025

BUDG-PR-778223

Committee on Budgets · Rapporteur: Sandra Gómez López

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This draft report concerns the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Spain after floods in Valencia (October 2024) and France after cyclones in Mayotte (December 2024) and Réunion (February 2025). It approves the Commission's proposal and recommends swift approval.

Committee position. The rapporteur recommends the 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 in affected regions.
  2. Welcomes the decision as a tangible form of Union solidarity and stresses the importance of communicating its benefits.
  3. Calls for investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, expanding the EUSF budget, and ensuring assistance matches disaster magnitude.
  4. Stresses the need for preventive measures, synergies with other EU funds, and that EUSF assistance should not reduce other Union funding.
  5. Recalls that RESTORE and EAFRD provide additional assistance and urges Member States to use these opportunities.
  6. Calls for rapid damage assessment and reduced time for advance payments.
  7. Stresses the urgent need for immediate financial assistance through the EUSF.
  8. Approves the decision annexed to the resolution.

Who is affected

  • Spain: affected by floods in Valencia, with damages estimated at EUR 18.08 billion.
  • France: affected by cyclones in Mayotte and Réunion, with damages estimated at EUR 3.6 billion and EUR 849.45 million respectively.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1 057 018 077: proposed mobilisation amount.
  • EUR 18.08 billion: total direct damages in Spain.
  • EUR 3.6 billion: total direct damages in Mayotte.
  • EUR 849.45 million: total direct damages in Réunion.
  • 229 fatalities in Spain, 39 in Mayotte, 4 in Réunion.
  • EUR 928 376 487: total available allocation for this mobilisation.

Legal basis: Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund, Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 on the multiannual financial framework, and the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020.