Article 3
1. Assistance from the Fund shall take the form of a grant. For each recognised disaster a single grant shall be awarded to a beneficiary State. 2. 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: (a) immediate restoration to working order of infrastructure and plant in the fields of energy, water and waste water, telecommunications, transport, health and education; (b) providing temporary accommodation and funding rescue services to meet the immediate needs of the population concerned; (c) immediate securing of preventive infrastructures and measures of immediate protection of the cultural heritage; (d) immediate cleaning up of disaster-stricken areas, including natural zones. 3. 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 in accordance with Article 8.