Considerations on COM(2011)617 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2010/019 IE/Construction 41 from Ireland

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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 9 June 2010 to mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in 1 482 enterprises operating in NACE Revision 2 Division 41 (‘Construction of buildings’) in the NUTS II regions of Border, Midlands and Western (IE01) and Southern and Eastern (IE02) in Ireland, and supplemented it by additional information up to 17 June 2011. 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 12 689 838.

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