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What changed between the resolution motion joint and the adopted text
From · resolution motion joint· 18 Sept 2024
on the devastating floods in central and eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change
To · adopted text· 19 Sept 2024
The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change
AI:What changed, in short
Adds a call for the CAP's Crisis Reserve to be activated for agricultural disaster losses.5 Adds a call for higher advance payments from the EU Solidarity Fund and for amending rules to speed up mobilisation.6 Adds a statement that the next multiannual financial framework must ensure adequate funding for cohesion policy.3 The other changes are formal: decimal separators are aligned to use commas.124
3 changes of substance · 3 formal · 0 of wording only
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Changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations and punctuation-only edits are left out; they are under “Every difference”.
Changes of substance · 3
Change 3 Substance
AI summary:Adds a sentence stating that the future MFF must recognize the crucial role of cohesion policy and ensure an adequate budget.
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Changed:J. whereas, owing to its regional focus, place-based approach, strategic planning and effective implementation model, cohesion policy should play a key role in the prevention of disasters, recovery from symmetric and asymmetric shocks, and the fight against climate change; whereas in order to effectively address these challenges, it is essential that the future MFF recognises the crucial role of cohesion policy, ensuring an adequate budget;
Change 5 Substance
AI summary:Adds a new paragraph urging the activation of the CAP's Crisis Reserve to alleviate agricultural losses from natural disasters.
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Added:9. Urgently calls for the activation of the CAP’s Crisis Reserve to alleviate severe losses suffered by the agricultural sector as a result of the natural disasters;
Change 6 Substance
AI summary:Adds a new paragraph noting that increasing advance payments from the EUSF would improve disaster response and urges the Commission to explore accelerating its mobilisation.
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Added:12. Notes that substantially increasing advance payments from the EUSF would allow Member States to respond more effectively and quickly to disasters, especially in less developed regions, where immediate assistance is required; urges the Commission to explore all possible avenues for accelerating the mobilisation of the EUSF, in particular by amending current rules and to consider granting higher advance payments to applicant countries;
3 formal changes: legal basis, citations, references, corrections
Change 1 Formal
AI summary:Replaces the decimal separator in the temperature figure from a period to a comma.
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Changed:C. whereas the first EUCRA and the Commission communication on managing climate risks – protecting people and prosperity, point out that Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and severe phenomena such as wildfires, droughts and floods are becoming more and more frequent across Europe as a result of the effects of climate change; whereas the average temperature over European land in summer 2024 was the highest on record for the season, at 1.54 °C above the 1991-2020 average, exceeding the previous record from 2022; whereas this marked a 14-month period during which the average global surface air temperature exceeded 1.51,5 °C above pre-industrial levels;
Change 2 Formal
AI summary:Replaces the decimal separator in the number of affected people from a period to a comma.
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Changed:D. whereas in the past 30 years alone, flooding across Europe has affected 5.55,5 million people, with almost 3 000 lives lost and causing more than EUR 170 billion in economic damage; whereas climate change is significantly increasing flood risks across Europe;
Change 4 Formal
AI summary:Replaces the decimal separator in the payment cut figure from a period to a comma.
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Changed:6. Underlines the need to provide the UCPM with sufficient and upgraded resources in order to increase preparedness and improve capacity building; regrets, therefore, the budget cuts of EUR 37 million (in commitments) and EUR 154.9154,9 million (in payments) for the UCPM (rescEU); calls for increased funding to be allocated for the relevant budget lines and in the next MFF; calls on the Commission to consider mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and management across the relevant EU funding programmes, considering that all funds spent in this area will prevent significant expenditure on response and rebuilding;