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Lead | BUDG | ZDECHOVSKÝ Tomáš (EPP) | NEGRESCU Victor (S&D), KÖLMEL Bernd (ECR), DEPREZ Gérard (ALDE), NÍ RIADA Liadh (GUE/NGL), VANA Monika (Verts/ALE), ZANNI Marco (EFD) |
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2016/02/25
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- 2016/02/19 Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
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2016/02/18
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2016/02/01
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2016/01/20
Non-legislative basic document published
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COM(2016)0001
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PURPOSE: to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to assist Belgium in respect of redundancies its glass sector. PROPOSED ACT: Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council. CONTENT: Article 12 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 provides that the EGF shall not exceed a maximum annual amount of EUR 150 million (2011 prices) over and above the relevant headings of the financial framework. The rules applicable to financial contributions from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) are laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006. In this context, the Commission examined the application for mobilisation of the EGF to assist Belgium and concluded the following: Belgium:EGF/2015/007 BE/Hainaut-Namur Glass: on 19 August 2015, Belgium submitted an application EGF/2015/007 BE/HainautNamur Glass for a financial contribution from the EGF, following redundancies in the economic sector classified under the NACE Revision 2 Division 23 (Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products) in the NUTS level 2 regions of Hainaut (BE32) and Namur (BE35) in Belgium. Belgium submitted its application within the 12 week deadline laid down in the Regulation. The deadline within which the Commission should finalise its assessment of the application's compliance with the conditions for providing a financial contribution expires on 20 January 2016. In order to establish the link between the redundancies and major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, Belgium argued that Union trade in glass products has undergone serious disruptions in recent years. While demand has stagnated in Europe between 2000 and 2013, imports have dramatically increased, with foreign producers capturing a growing share of the European market. This can be explained by the fact that a production overcapacity in Asia (notably in China) has resulted in downward price pressure, which European producers find hard to cope with, due to higher production costs and stricter environmental standards, notably CO2 emission quotas. Between 2000 and 2010, in the glass sector as a whole, employment decreased by 32 % in Europe (particularly affecting Germany, Poland, France and Belgium). Production of glass in Belgium fell below 1 million tons in 2009 for the first time since the mid-sixties, and it continued to decrease by 5 % in both 2011 and 2012. The event giving rise to these redundancies is the closure of two production plants in Wallonia owned by the two enterprises, AGC Europe SA and Saint-Gobain Glass Benelux, respectively. To date, the Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products sector has been the subject of five EGF applications, two of which (including this one) based on trade related globalisation and three on the global financial and economic crisis Basis of the Belgian application: Belgium submitted the application under the intervention criteria of Article 4(2) derogating from the criteria of Article 4(1) (b) of the EGF Regulation, which requires at least 500 workers being made redundant over a reference period of nine months in enterprises operating in the same economic sector defined at NACE Revision 2 Division and located in one region or two contiguous regions defined at NUTS 2 level in a Member State. The reference period of nine months for the application runs from 31 August 2014 to 31 May 2015. There were 412 redundancies combined in the NUTS level 2 regions of Hainaut (B32) and Namur (B35). Having examined this application, the proposed contribution from the EGF to the coordinated package of personalised services is EUR 1 095 544. BUDGETARY IMPLICATION: having examined the application in respect of the conditions set out in Article 13(1) of the EGF Regulation, and having taken into account the number of targeted beneficiaries, the proposed actions and the estimated costs, the Commission proposes to mobilise the EGF for the amount of EUR 1 095 544, representing 60% of the total costs of the proposed actions, in order to provide a financial contribution for the application. The proposed decision to mobilise the EGF will be taken jointly by the European Parliament and the Council, as laid down in point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management. At the same time as it presents this proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF, the Commission will present to the European Parliament and to the Council a proposal for a transfer to the relevant budgetary line for the requested amount. At the same time as it adopts this proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF, the Commission will adopt a decision on a financial contribution, by means of an implementing act, which will enter into force on the date at which the European Parliament and the Council adopt the proposed decision to mobilise the EGF.
- DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}, GEORGIEVA Kristalina
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COM(2016)0001
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2016)0001
- Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A8-0029/2016
Amendments | Dossier |
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2016/2013(BUD)
2016/02/10
BUDG
10 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Notes that Saint-Gobain Group was in 2013 forced to close another production plant in Wallonia which was subject of the EGF/2013/011 BE/Saint-Gobain Sekurit application relating to 257 redundancies in the same sector; notes that several measures in the two applications are similar ;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Reiterates that assistance from the EGF must not replace actions which are the responsibility of companies by virtue of national law or collective agreements nor measures for restructuring companies or sectors;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Notes that the derogation from Article 4(1)(a) of the EGF Regulation in this case relates to the number of redundancies which is not significantly lower than the threshold of 500 redundancies; welcomes that the application aims to support a further 100 NEETs;
Amendment 3 #
7a. Welcomes the support for collective projects; calls on the Commission to assess the results of this type of measure in other applications in order to determine its benefits to the participants;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Appreciates that the allowances and incentives to be provided as part of the proposed measures are limited to 5,52 % of the total estimated costs;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Welcomes the extension of the access to the EGF for NEETs; notes however that this access is currently limited by the EGF Regulation until 31 December 2017; calls for the revision of the EGF Regulation, in the framework of the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework, in order to enable the access of NEETs to continue after 2017, especially if the mid-term evaluation of the EGF demonstrates the need to further include the support for NEETs;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Recalls that, in line with Article 7 of the EGF Regulation, the design of the coordinated package of personalised services supported by the EGF should anticipate future labour market perspectives and required skills and should be compatible with the shift towards a resource-efficient and sustainable economy;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Underlines that in case of successive applications from the same geographical region the Commission should collect and analyse the experiences from previous applications and ensure that in case of new applications any conclusion of that analysis is taken into due account;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Asks the Commission to further detail, in future proposals, the sectors in which the workers are likely to find employment and if the training on offer is aligned to the future economic prospects and labour market needs in the regions concerned by the dismissals, especially considering that this EGF application related to Saint- Gobain Group redundancies in a deindustrialised zone is the second one to be submitted to the Parliament within the past 12 months ;
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