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The interinstitutional agreement of 7 November 2002 provided for the creation of a Solidarity Fund to support the population of regions struck by disasters. The Fund can be mobilised within the annual ceiling of EUR one billion. This is a proposal that took several years to be adopted, following our parliamentary group’s insistence in the annual budgetary proceedings prior to 2002.
This fund helped, last year, by providing emergency aid as a follow up to the major forest fires that devastated around 5% of Portuguese territory.
Bearing in mind the urgent nature of the situation, we supported this proposal to mobilise around EUR 22 million from the Fund to cover the damage caused by the storms and floods that occurred in Malta (September 2003), the forest fires in Spain (in the summer of 2003) and the floods in France (December 2003).
The inadequacy of the sums involved, however, in light of the damage that has been suffered – and Portugal last year is a case in point – raises the issue of the scale of Community solidarity and of the criteria for eligibility for this Fund."@en1
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