Humanitarian aid is a shared parallel competency: this means that the EU conducts an autonomous policy, which neither prevents the Member States from exercising their competences nor makes the EU's policy merely “complementary” to those of the Member States.
Humanitarna pomoć ima zajedničku paralelnu nadležnost: to znači da Unija provodi samostalnu politiku, što ne sprječava zemlje članice da primjenjuju svoju nadležnost niti politiku Unije pretvara samo u „nadopunu“ politike zemalja članica.