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Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: redundancies in the food industry in Greece

2014/2042(BUD)

PURPOSE: to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in respect of redundancies in the food industry in Greece.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision 2014/698/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with Point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management (application EGF/2014/001 EL/Nutriart from Greece).

CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament and the Council have decided to mobilise the EGF for an amount of EUR 6 096 000 in commitment and payment appropriations in the framework of the 2014 general budget of the European Union.

This amount shall assist Greece following redundancies in the enterprise Nutriart S.A and 25 providers and downstream producers: AR.ZIGAS & SIA as well 24 self-employed people.

Given that this application complies with the requirements for determining the financial contributions as laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 (MFF Regulation 2014-2020), the European Parliament and Council have decided to grant the abovementioned amount.

Furthermore, Greece has decided to provide personalised services co-financed by the EGF also to young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), as is authorised by the EGF Regulation 2014-2020.

To recall, the EGF was established to provide support for workers made redundant and self-employed persons whose activity has ceased as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, as a result of a continuation of the global financial and economic crisis addressed in Regulation (EC) No 546/2009, or as a result of a new global financial and economic crisis and to assist them with their reintegration into the labour market.

Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 provides that the EGF shall not exceed a maximum annual amount of EUR 150 million.