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Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: redundancies in ICT wholesale trade in the Netherlands

2010/2279(BUD)

PURPOSE: to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in respect of redundancies in the ICT wholesale trade in the Netherlands.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2011/99/EU 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 (application EGF/2010/012 NL/Noord Holland ICT from the Netherlands).

CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament and the Council have decided to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to provide the sum of EUR 2 557 135 in commitment and payment appropriations in the framework of the 2010 budget.

This amount is intended to assist the Netherlands which were affected by redundancies in two enterprises operating in the NACE Revision 2 Division 46 ('Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles') in the NUTS II region of Noord Holland (NL32).

Given that this application complies with the requirements for determining the financial contributions as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006, the Parliament and the Council have decided to respond by providing the aforementioned amount.

To recall, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was set up to provide additional support to redundant workers who suffer from the consequences of major structural changes in world trade patterns and to assist them with their reintegration into the labour market. The Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 allows the mobilisation of the Fund within the annual ceiling of EUR 500 million. It should also be noted that the scope of the EGF was broadened for applications submitted from 1 May 2009 to include support for workers made redundant as a direct result of the global financial and economic crisis.