European Union Solidarity Fund Annual report 2006

Abstract

The European Union Solidarity Fund was set up on 15 November 20021. Article 12 of the Solidarity Fund Regulation provides that a report on the activity of the Fund in the previous year be presented to the European Parliament and to the Council. The present report presents the activities of the Fund in 2006 covering, as in previous reports, three areas: the treatment of new applications received in the course of 2006, monitoring of the ongoing implementation of grants, and the assessment of implementation reports with a view to preparing these for closure. In addition, the report presents the progress which has been made with regard to the proposal for a new Regulation on the Solidarity Fund presented by the Commission on 6 April 2005 for the period after the expiry of the 2000-2006 Financial Perspectives.