Call: European Union Solidarity Fund
Programme | |
Acronym | EUSF |
Type of Fund | Action programme |
Description of programme "European Union Solidarity Fund" | At the request of a Member State or country involved in accession negotiations with the
European Union, assistance from this fund may be mobilised when a major natural disaster with serious repercussions
on living conditions, the natural environment or the economy occurs.
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Link | Link to Programme |
Call | European Union
Solidarity Fund |
Description of call "European Union Solidarity Fund" | The aim of the Fund is to complement the efforts of the States concerned and to cover a share of their public expenditure in order to help the beneficiary State to carry out the following essential emergency operations, depending on the type of disaster:
Payments from the Fund are in principle limited to finance measures alleviating non insurable damages and shall be recovered if the cost of repairing the damage is subsequently met by a third party. |
Link | Link to Call |
Thematic Focus | Disaster Prevention, Security, Social affairs |
Funding area | EU Member States Candidate Countries |
Origin of Applicant | EU Member States Candidate Countries |
Eligible applicants | National Government |
Applicant details | The applicant requesting financial assistance from the Solidarity Fund must be the competent national government/national authority (such as a ministry). |
Recurring Call | unknown |
Further info | As soon as possible and no later than ten weeks after the first damage caused by
the disaster, a State may submit an application for assistance from the Fund to the Commission. A grant shall be
used within one year of the date on which the Commission has disbursed the grant. |
Type of Funding | Grant |
Financial details | Major
disasters Regional
disasters and “neighbouring country” disasters The maximum aid amount for a given disaster may not exceed two thirds of the annual allocation of the Fund
in a given year. Moreover, for a disaster accepted on the basis of the “neighbouring country” provision the aid amount
may not exceed the amount of the aid for the country where the corresponding “major disaster” originated. E.g. capping
in 2014: 354 Million €. |
Contact Details | European Commission DG Regional and Urban Policy Unit E1/EUSF B-1049 Brussels Belgium Johannes Wachter Johannes.Wachter@ec.europa.eu Tel.: +32 2 296 65 15 Nyla Cruz Nyla.Cruz@ec.europa.eu phone: +32 2 295 36 09 |
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