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12.1.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union
L
8/17
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 12 December 2012
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/2012/005 SE/Saab from Sweden)
(2013/18/EU)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
additional information up to 20 August 2012. This
EUROPEAN UNION,
application complies with the requirements for deter
mining the financial contributions as laid down in
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006. The
Union,
Commission, therefore, proposes to mobilise an
amount of EUR 5 454 560.
Having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May
2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the
(4) The
EGF
should,
therefore,
be
mobilised
in
order
to
Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial
provide a financial contribution for the application
management ( 1 ), and in particular point 28 thereof,
submitted by Sweden,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the
HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December
2006 establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment
Fund (
Article 1

2 ), and in particular Article 12(3) thereof,
For the general budget of the European Union for the financial
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
year 2012, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund shall
be mobilised to provide the sum of EUR 5 454 560 in
Whereas:
commitment and payment appropriations.
(1) The
European
Globalisation
Adjustment
Fund
(EGF)
was
Article 2
established to provide additional support for workers
made redundant as a result of major structural changes
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the
in world trade patterns due to globalisation and to assist
European Union.
them with their reintegration into the labour market.
(2) The
Interinstitutional
Agreement
of
17
May
2006
allows Done at Strasbourg, 12 December 2012.
the mobilisation of the EGF within the annual ceiling of
EUR 500 million.
(3) Sweden
submitted
an
application
on
25
May
2012
to
For the European Parliament
For the Council
mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in the
enterprise Saab Automobile SA, one of its subsidiaries
The President
The President
and 16 of its suppliers, and supplemented it by
M. SCHULZ
A. D. MAVROYIANNIS
( 1 ) OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 406, 30.12.2006, p. 1.

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