1 - Humanitarian aid represents a commitment to support vulnerable host populations that have experienced a sudden emergency, requiring ongoing assistance to maintain or improve their quality of life.

2 - Driven by its longstanding commitment to helping victims of emergencies worldwide, the EU has been providing humanitarian aid since 1992 in over 140 countries.

3 - We invite further feedback and comment, and commit to refreshing our strategic framework at least once every year.

4 - Our commitment will be measured most likely in years but our efforts are already having a significant impact.

5 - The law of complicity enables the conviction of people who aid and abet others to commit offenses, and spreads a fairly wide net in doing so.