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dossier	COM(2013)119 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2011/010 AT/Austria Tabak from Austria.
document	COM(2013)119
date	May 21, 2013

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 30 December 2011 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)

Austria submitted an application on 20 December 2011 to mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in the enterprise Austria Tabak GmbH and in 14 suppliers and downstream producers and supplemented it by additional information up to 9 October 2012. 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 3 941 999.

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