14.10.2005 Official Journal of the European Union L 26921 I (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 7 September 2005 on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund according to point 3 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (2005/706/EC) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on the financing of the European Union Solidarity Fund supplementing the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure (1), and in particular point 3 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 of 11 November 2002 establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund (3), Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas: (1) The European Union has created a Solidarity Fund (the Fund) to show solidarity with the population of regions struck by disasters. (2)  Slovakia submitted an application to mobilise the Fund on 24 January 2005, following a disaster caused by a storm. (3)  The Interinstitutional Agreement of 7 November 2002 allows mobilisation of the Fund within an annual ceiling of EUR 1 billion. (4 The storm disaster in Slovakia in November 2004 fulfils the criteria for mobilising the European Union Solidarity Fund, () O] C 283, 20.11.2002, p. 1. 0 L 311, 14.11.2002, p. 3.