Regional and Urban Policy

The EUSF aid was used for:

Regional and Urban Policy

05/2005

07/2014 01/2015

06/201408/2005 Floods€10.5 million

Floods€9.7 million

Floods€2 million

Severe winter conditions€6.4 million

Floods€10.6 million

The EUSF aid was used for:

During the spring of 2005 Bulgaria was hit by severe floods caused by torrential rains. Nearly two-thirds of the country's territory and 3.2 million inhabitants were affected by the heavy rainfalls.

▶ Supplyingessential goods to559 towns andvillages

▶ Restoring electricity▶ Search and rescueoperations.

▶ Repair of road and railinfrastructure, clean-upoperations and reinforcement offlood protection infrastructure.

€41.4 million

BULGARIA The European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was created after the severe floods in Central Europe in the summer of 2002. Since then, it intervened following 80 disasters covering a range of different catastrophic events including floods, forest fires, earthquakes, storms and drought. 24 different European countries have been supported so far with a total amount of over €5.2 billion.

Following the Commission's proposal, Bulgaria will receive €2.2 million from the EUSF due to the floods that hit the south-eastern part of Bulgaria in October 2017.

Bulgaria has previously received EUSF funding on 5 occasions:

Total aid granted

Burgas