Carsid from Belgium - Main contents

Please note

This page contains a limited version of this dossier in the EU Monitor.

dossier	COM(2014)553 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2013/002 BE/Carsid from Belgium.
document	COM(2014)553
date	October 22, 2014

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 EGF shall not exceed a maximum annual amount of EUR 150 million (2011 prices), as laid down in Article 12 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013.

(3)

Belgium submitted an application to mobilise the EGF, in respect of redundancies in the enterprise Carsid SA, on 2 April 2013 and supplemented it by additional information up to 4 July 2014. 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 911 934.

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