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dossier	COM(2010)196 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2009/012 IE/Waterford Crystal, Ireland.
document	COM(2010)196
date	June 16, 2010

table>(1)The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was 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 them with their reintegration into the labour market.

(2)	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.

(3)	The Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 allows the mobilisation of the EGF within the annual ceiling of EUR 500 million.

(4)

Ireland submitted an application on 7 August 2009 to mobilise the EGF, in respect of redundancies in the enterprise Waterford Crystal and in three of its suppliers or downstream producers, and supplemented it by additional information until 3 November 2009. This application complies with the requirements for determining the financial contributions as laid down in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006. The Commission, therefore, proposes to mobilise an amount of EUR 2 570 853.

(5)	The EGF should, therefore, be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution for the application submitted by Ireland,