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dossier	COM(2013)470 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2011/025 IT/Lombardia from Italy.
document	COM(2013)470
date	October 9, 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)

Italy submitted an application on 30 December 2011 to mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in two enterprises operating in the NACE Revision 2 Division 26 (‘Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products’) in the NUTS II region of Lombardia (ITC4) and supplemented it by additional information up to 12 March 2013. 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 1 164 930.

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