PURPOSE: to mobilise the European Globalisation
Adjustment Fund (EGF) to assist France in respect of redundancies
in the road haulage 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 France and
concluded the following:
France:
EGF/2015/010 FR/MoryGlobal: on 19
November 2015, France submitted application EGF/2015/010 FR/
MoryGlobal for a financial contribution from the EGF, following
redundancies in MoryGlobal SAS in France.
France submitted its application within 12 weeks of
the date on which the intervention criteria were met. The deadline
expired on 7 April 2016.
In order to establish the link between the
redundancies and the global financial and economic crisis addressed
in Regulation (EC) No 546/2009, France argues that MoryGlobal was
active in the fields of courier services, freight transport and
delivery, warehousing and rental of related materials; and provided
these services both within France and abroad.
As a result of the global financial and economic
crisis, road haulage in vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes
declined by 13.7% in the EU and by 21% in France between 2007 and
2012. This decline has been following the general decline of
physical output in Europe and the road transport sector in Europe
has not yet recovered from the major activity decline it suffered
in 2009 due to the economic crisis. In 2014, the activity of road
freight transport remained more than 10% lower compared with the
pre-crisis activity.
Faced with the reduction in volumes to be transported,
a price war broke out within the sector.
The current difficulties of MoryGlobal go back to
2012/2013. At the time the enterprise was known as Mory-Ducros.
Mory-Ducros declared itself insolvent on November 2013 and entered
into liquidation procedures. The difficulties were not resolved
after the take-over and the company eventually went bankrupt and
ceased all activity.
This is a follow-up application to a previous
request, in support of the Mory-Ducros workers who moved to
MoryGlobal.
Basis of the French application: France submitted the application under the
intervention criteria of Article 4(1)(a) of the EGF Regulation,
which requires at least 500 workers being made redundant over a
reference period of four months in an enterprise in a Member State,
including workers made redundant by suppliers and downstream
producers and / or self-employed persons whose activity has
ceased.
The reference period of four months for the
application runs from 27 April 2015 to 27 August 2015. During the
reference period 2 093 workers were made redundant in MoryGlobal.
The total number of eligible beneficiaries is 2 132.
Having examined this application, the proposed
contribution from the EGF to the coordinated package of
personalised services is EUR 5 146 800.
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 5 146
800, 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 amount of EUR 5 146
800.
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.