Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/0284(BUD)
Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Germany and Italy relating to floods occurred in 2024
Budget procedure (BUD): Parliament and the Council adopt the EU’s annual budget together. · First reading
A decision on EU spending: the annual budget, amending budgets or emergency funds.
Where it stands
Published as law
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 11 December 2024 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 13 November 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 21 November 2024
- Tabled for plenary(done) 22 November 2024
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 27 November 2024
- Published as law(done) 11 December 2024
Decided in plenary
27 November 2024 · decision 2
EU budget & funds, Budget decision
Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Germany and Italy relating to floods occurred in 2024
Passed 660 for · 11 against · 4 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The decision releases financial aid to help with recovery from the flood damage in the affected regions.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:Adds a call for adequate EUSF funding for islands and coastal regions and for member states to consider vulnerable populations. Updates references to the RRF regulation and rephrases the text on funding opportunities and Union funding. The other changes are formal: decimal separators, title, and removal of explanatory paragraphs.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report adds details on fatalities and expands calls for climate investment and a larger EUSF budget. It introduces new provisions on vulnerable regions and modifies existing text to include Paris agreement and RRF reallocation.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Giuseppe Lupo (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Monika Hohlmeier (EPP), Ruggero Razza (ECR), Joachim Streit (Renew), Nicolae Ștefănuță (Greens), Nikolas Farantouris (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Regional Development
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 27 Nov 2024
AI summary:Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Germany and Italy after 2024 floods, expressing solidarity with victims and calling for expanded EUSF funding and climate adaptation measures.
Tabled for plenary· 22 Nov 2024
AI summary:Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Germany and Italy after 2024 floods, and calls for swift payment and expanded disaster funding.
Committee draft· 29 Oct 2024
AI summary:This draft report concerns the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to assist Germany and Italy after 2024 floods. It approves the Commission's proposal and calls for swift financial assistance.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
11 December 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 2 steps
27 November 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 27 Nov 2024 Report A10-0020/2024Adopted text TA10-0048/2024
22 November 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
21 November 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
13 November 2024
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; REGI (Regional Development) gives an opinion.
12 November 2024
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of BUDG (Budgets) proposed changes to the draft.
29 October 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/0284(BUD)