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2019/0180(COD) European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) 2014-2020
Next event: Vote in plenary scheduled 2019/10/22

Progress: Awaiting committee decision

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead EMPL BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ Vilija (icon: S&D S&D) FRANSSEN Cindy (icon: EPP EPP), BROPHY Jane (icon: Renew Renew), PHILLIPS Alexandra Louise Rosenfield (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), SZYDŁO Beata (icon: ECR ECR)
Committee Opinion BUDG VAN OVERTVELDT Johan (icon: ECR ECR)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
TFEU 175-p3

Events

2019/10/22
   Vote in plenary scheduled
2019/10/02
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
2019/10/01
   EP - Specific opinion
Documents
2019/09/26
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2019/09/24
   EP - VAN OVERTVELDT Johan (ECR) appointed as rapporteur in BUDG
2019/09/16
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
2019/09/09
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2019/09/04
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE: to enable the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to support workers made redundant as a result of the likely economic disruptions in the case of a Brexit without a withdrawal agreement.

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.

BACKGROUND: the United Kingdom has decided to leave the European Union using the procedure provided for in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU).

Following a request from the United Kingdom, the European Council agreed on 11 April 2019 to further extend the deadline provided for in Article 50(3) of the TEU until 31 October 2019. Unless the United Kingdom ratifies the withdrawal agreement by 31 October 2019 or requests a third extension and it is adopted unanimously by the European Council, the United Kingdom will leave the Union without agreement and become a third country on 1 November 2019.

The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was established by Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council for the duration of the multiannual financial framework from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013. It was established to enable the Union to show solidarity towards workers who lost their jobs as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation.

After analysing the risks, the European Commission concluded that this proposal was necessary to ensure an effective response from the EGF and to show solidarity with workers made redundant in the Union as a result of a withdrawal from the United Kingdom from the Union without a withdrawal agreement.

CONTENT: the proposed contingency Regulation should amend Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 in order to specify that redundancies resulting from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without a withdrawal agreement fall within the scope of the EGF.

Such a withdrawal would represent a major change in the EU's trade relations and the structure of the internal market and would therefore probably have significant repercussions on business models, growth and employment.

The Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and should apply from the date following that on which the Treaties cease to apply in the United Kingdom. However, it should not apply if a withdrawal agreement concluded with the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 50(2) TEU has entered into force by that date.

2019/09/03
   EP - BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ Vilija (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in EMPL

Documents

  • Specific opinion: PE641.291
  • Amendments tabled in committee: PE641.274
  • Committee draft report: PE641.097
  • Legislative proposal published: COM(2019)0397
  • Legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
  • Committee draft report: PE641.097
  • Amendments tabled in committee: PE641.274
  • Specific opinion: PE641.291
AmendmentsDossier
1 2019/0180(COD)
2019/09/26 EMPL 1 amendments...
source: 641.274

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)

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  • PURPOSE: to enable the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to support workers made redundant as a result of the likely economic disruptions in the case of a Brexit without a withdrawal agreement.
  • PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
  • ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.
  • BACKGROUND: the United Kingdom has decided to leave the European Union using the procedure provided for in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU).
  • Following a request from the United Kingdom, the European Council agreed on 11 April 2019 to further extend the deadline provided for in Article 50(3) of the TEU until 31 October 2019. Unless the United Kingdom ratifies the withdrawal agreement by 31 October 2019 or requests a third extension and it is adopted unanimously by the European Council, the United Kingdom will leave the Union without agreement and become a third country on 1 November 2019.
  • The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was established by Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council for the duration of the multiannual financial framework from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013. It was established to enable the Union to show solidarity towards workers who lost their jobs as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation.
  • After analysing the risks, the European Commission concluded that this proposal was necessary to ensure an effective response from the EGF and to show solidarity with workers made redundant in the Union as a result of a withdrawal from the United Kingdom from the Union without a withdrawal agreement.
  • CONTENT: the proposed contingency Regulation should amend Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 in order to specify that redundancies resulting from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union without a withdrawal agreement fall within the scope of the EGF.
  • Such a withdrawal would represent a major change in the EU's trade relations and the structure of the internal market and would therefore probably have significant repercussions on business models, growth and employment.
  • The Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and should apply from the date following that on which the Treaties cease to apply in the United Kingdom. However, it should not apply if a withdrawal agreement concluded with the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 50(2) TEU has entered into force by that date.
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  • EMPL/9/01205
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Awaiting committee decision
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  • body: EC dg: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion commissioner: THYSSEN Marianne
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  • name: FRANSSEN Cindy group: Group of European People's Party abbr: EPP
  • name: BROPHY Jane group: Renew Europe group abbr: Renew
  • name: PHILLIPS Alexandra Louise Rosenfield group: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance abbr: Verts/ALE
  • name: SZYDŁO Beata group: European Conservatives and Reformists Group abbr: ECR