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(1) The European Union Solidarity Fund (the ‘Fund’) aims to enable the Union to respond in a rapid, efficient and flexible manner to emergency situations and to show solidarity with the population of regions struck by disasters.

(2) The Fund is not to exceed a maximum annual amount of EUR 500 million (2011 prices), as laid down in Article 10 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 .

(3) Bulgaria has submitted an application to mobilise the Fund, concerning severe winter conditions.

(4) Greece has submitted two applications to mobilise the Fund, concerning floods.

(5) The Commission has assessed that the applications meet the conditions for awarding aid from the Fund, as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002.

(6) The Fund should therefore be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution for the full amount of EUR 16 274 765 in respect of the applications submitted by Bulgaria and Greece.

(7) There is scope for reallocating appropriations in accordance with the second sentence of point 11 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013. The appropriations for advances for the financial year 2015 have been used, to a very limited extent, for the three applications which are the subject of this Decision and for which the remaining balance to be paid is EUR 14 647 288. Consequently, the full amount for the mobilisation will be financed through the reallocation of the available appropriations for advances in the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015, and no additional appropriations are needed.

(8) In order to minimise the time taken to mobilise the Fund, this decision should apply from the date of its adoption,