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Official Journal of the European Union
8.11.2011
DECISIONS
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 25 October 2011
on 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/2011/003
DE/Arnsberg and Düsseldorf automotive from Germany)
(2011/724/EU)
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
(4) Germany
submitted
an
application
on
9
February
2011
EUROPEAN UNION,
to mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in five
enterprises operating in the NACE Revision 2 Division
29 (‘Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
trailers’) in the NUTS II regions of Arnsberg (DEA5)
Union,
and Düsseldorf (DEA1) and supplemented it by addi
tional information up to 28 April 2011. This application
complies with the requirements for determining the
Having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May
financial contributions as laid down in Article 10 of
2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the
Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006. The Commission,
Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial
therefore, proposes to mobilise an amount of
management ( 1 ), and in particular point 28 thereof,
EUR 4 347 868.
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the
(5) The
EGF
should,
therefore,
be
mobilised
in
order
to
European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December
provide a financial contribution for the application
2006 establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment
submitted by Germany,
Fund ( 2 ), and in particular Article 12(3) thereof,
HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
Article 1
Whereas:
For the general budget of the European Union for the financial
year 2011, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund shall
be mobilised to provide the sum of EUR 4 347 868 in
(1) The
European
Globalisation
Adjustment
Fund
(EGF)
was commitment and payment appropriations.
established to provide additional support for workers
made redundant as a result of major structural changes
in world trade patterns due to globalisation and to assist
Article 2
them with their reintegration into the labour market.
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the
European Union.
(2) The
scope
of
the
EGF
was
broadened
for
applications
submitted from 1 May 2009 to include support for
Done at Strasbourg, 25 October 2011.
workers made redundant as a direct result of the global
financial and economic crisis.
For the European Parliament
For the Council
(3) The
Interinstitutional
Agreement
of
17
May
2006
allows
the mobilisation of the EGF within the annual ceiling of
The President
The President
EUR 500 million.
J. BUZEK
M. DOWGIELEWICZ
( 1 ) OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 406, 30.12.2006, p. 1.

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