Stressing that it is the Treaty of Lisbon that defines humanitarian aid as an autonomous community policy of the EU for the first time ever, Jeleva also noted that one of the principal tasks before the new EC would be to draft a strategy for creating a voluntary European corps for humanitarian aid.
Naglašavajući da Lisabonski ugovor definiše, prvi put u istoriji, humanitarnu pomoć kao autonomnu politiku EU, Jeleva je takođe napomenula da će jedan od glavnih zadataka nove EK da izradi strategije za formiranje dobrovoljnog evropskog korpusa za humanitarnu pomoć.