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dossier	COM(2010)453 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2010/002 ES/Cataluña automoción.
document	COM(2010)453
date	October 20, 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)

Spain submitted an application on 29 January 2010 to mobilise the EGF, in respect of redundancies in 23 enterprises operating in the NACE Revision 2 Division 29 (manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers) sector in a single NUTS II region, Cataluña (ES51), and supplemented it by additional information up to 26 April 2010. 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 2 752 935.

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