PURPOSE: to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for four cases of redundancies in the Italian textile sector.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2008/916/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in accordance with point 28 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management.
CONTENT: pursuant to this Decision, the European Parliament and the Council shall provide the sum of EUR 35 158 075 in commitment and payment appropriations under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund. These appropriations have been granted to provide assistance to Italy, which submitted four applications to deploy the Fund, in respect of redundancies in the textile sector, for Sardinia, Piedmont, Lombardy and Tuscany. Given that these applications comply with the requirements for determining the financial contributions as laid down in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 (EGF Regulation), the aforementioned sum is provided to Italy to respond to its applications.