Considerations on COM(2011)340 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2010/007 AT/Steiermark and Niederösterreich from Austria - Main contents
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dossier | COM(2011)340 - Globalisation Fund application EGF/2010/007 AT/Steiermark and Niederösterreich from Austria. |
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document | COM(2011)340 ![]() |
date | September 27, 2011 |
(2) | The scope of the EGF was broadened for applications submitted from 1 May 2009 to include support for workers made redundant as a direct result of the global financial and economic crisis. |
(3) | The Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 allows the mobilisation of the EGF within the annual ceiling of EUR 500 million. |
(4) | Austria submitted an application on 9 March 2010 to mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in 54 enterprises in NACE Revision 2 Division 24 (‘Manufacture of basic metals’) in the contiguous NUTS II regions of Steiermark (Styria, AT22) and Niederösterreich (Lower Austria, AT12) in Austria, and supplemented it by additional information up to 27 January 2011. 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 8 284 908. |
(5) | The EGF should, therefore, be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution for the application submitted by Austria, |