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Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | BUDG | NÍ RIADA Liadh (GUE/NGL) | NEGRESCU Victor (S&D), VANA Monika (Verts/ALE), ZANNI Marco (EFD) |
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2016/05/26
Vote in plenary scheduled
- 2016/05/24 Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
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2016/05/23
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2016/04/28
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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2016/04/14
Non-legislative basic document published
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COM(2016)0210
summary
PURPOSE: to mobilise the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to assist Greece in respect of redundancies in the retail sector. PROPOSED ACT: 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 Greece and concluded the following: Greece: EGF/2015/011 GR/Supermarket Larissa: on 26 November 2015, Greece submitted application EGF/2015/011 GR/Supermarket Larissa for a financial contribution from the EGF following redundancies in Supermarket Larissa ABEE in Greece. Greece submitted the application within 12 weeks of the date on which the intervention criteria were met. This deadline expired on 14 April 2016. In order to establish the link between the redundancies and major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, Greece argued that the Greek economy was in deep recession for six consecutive years (from 2008 to 2013). Since 2008 the Greek GDP has decreased by 25.7%, public consumption by 21 % and private consumption by 32.3 % whilst unemployment increased about 19 %. Moreover the decline in GDP has widened the gap between the Greek per capita GDP and the per capita GDP of the EU, cancelling the progress towards economic convergence made by Greece in the 1995-2007 period. Furthermore, to deal with foreign debt repayments, since 2008 the Greek government has been taking unpopular measures such as increasing tax rates, streamlining public expenditure and decreasing public employees' salaries. Since 2008, thousands of enterprises have stopped their activities and closed down, making their staff redundant and thousands of self-employed persons have ceased their activities, contributing to the sharp increase in unemployment already mentioned. Due to the drop of purchasing power of Greek households following the decline of the Greek economy since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis, demand for products, even basic staples, declined. In 2015, after declining for five consecutive years, volumes of retail trade of food, beverages and tobacco were more than 30 % lower than the early-crisis volumes of 2008. The sales of Supermarket Larissa followed the same downturn as the Greek economy and in 2013 sales were 24 % lower than in 2009. The enterprise could not overcome its losses and eventually had to close the shops one after another during Q2 2014. Most of the redundancies (97.5 %) are concentrated in Thessalia, in the NUTS level 3 territory of Larissa (EL142). There is a lack of job offers in the region if compared with the high number of job seekers. As a result, 73.5 % of the unemployed persons have been unemployed for more than 12 months in Thessalia. Basis of the Greek application: Greece submitted the application under the intervention criteria of Article 4(1)(a), 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 runs from 3 May 2015 to 3 September 2015. During the reference period 557 workers were made redundant in Supermarket Larissa ABEE. In view of the nature of the Greek application, it is proposed that the EGF contribute to the coordinated package of personalised services is EUR 6 468 000. BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS: 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 6 468 000, 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. In parallel with 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)0210
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Documents
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2016)0210
- Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A8-0181/2016
Amendments | Dossier |
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2016/2050(BUD)
2016/05/10
BUDG
22 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Notes that the financial contribution will target 557 workers made redundant out of which 194 persons are men and 363 are women;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Notes, therefore, that Supermarket Larissa, a cooperative of small grocery stores formed in 1986 that reached 42 shops and 600 workers, could not overcome its losses and had to close its shops during the second quarter of 2014; points out that this was not prevented by the austerity measures, in particular wage cuts (-30%), the renegotiation of leases and the putting off of the maturity date of bills; notes that this situation is also due to the drastic reduction in loans to enterprises, in a context where quantitative easing by the ECB failed to kickstart loans; notes that this case is a dramatic result of the continuous pressure by creditors on Greece and of European austerity policy ;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes that the income-support measures will be strictly limited to a maximum amount of 35% of the overall package of personalised measures, as set out in the EGF Regulation, and that these actions are conditional on the active participation of the targeted beneficiaries in job-search or training activities;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes that although the cooperative applied some austerity measures such as wage cuts, renegotiation of the leases, putting off the maturity date of bills, proposing cheaper products and reducing operation costs it had to start closing its shops one after another;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Notes that implementation of the mentioned actions are imperative in the region, taking into consideration that Supermarket Larissa's debt to third parties is estimated at around EUR 33,5 million, worsening the supermarket suppliers that might result in a cascading of bankruptcies and additional redundancies;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Notes that
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes the rather high amount (EUR 15 000) to be received, as part of personalised services, by the workers or NEETs who will set up their own business; notes, at the same time, that a large number of the redundant workers have an entrepreneurial background which increases their chances of success in this sector;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6 b. Notes the possible tendency that some of the new businesses will take the form of social cooperatives and welcomes, in this context, the efforts of the Greek authorities to enhance the sector of social economy in Greece;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Notes th
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Welcomes the fact that the coordinated package of personalised services
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Re
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Recalls that another 543 young people under the age of 30 that are not in employment, education or training in the same region might be provided with personalized services such as occupational guidance under the Youth Employment Initiative;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10.
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14.
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Notes that the
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Notes that additionally to the 557 workers dismissed, 543 young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) under the age of 30 from the same regions are expected to participate in the measures and receive personalised services co-financed by EGF; notes that the request of Greek authorities to include NEETs in these measures is due to the lack of jobs in the region if compared with the high number of job seekers, 73,5% of the unemployed persons being unemployed for more than 12 months in Thessalia (Eurostat);
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that the Greek economy was in deep recession for six consecutive years (from 2008 to 2013) and that since 2008, private consumption decreased by 32,3 percentage points while unemployment increased by about 19 percentage points; points to the closure of thousands of enterprises in Greece and the decline in household consumption and purchasing power since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008 and the fact that volumes of retail trade of food, beverages and tobacco were more than 30 % lower in 2015 than the early-crisis
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Notes that the Greek economy was in
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Notes
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Notes, therefore, that Supermarket Larissa, a cooperative of small grocery stores, could not overcome its losses and had to close its shops during the second quarter of 2014; points out that this was not prevented by the
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