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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/724",
  "legislation_title": "Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 28 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (application EGF/2011/003 DE/Arnsberg and Düsseldorf automotive from Germany) (2011/724/EU)",
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  "text": "Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council\nof 25 October 2011\non mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, in accordance with point 28 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (application EGF/2011/003 DE/Arnsberg and Düsseldorf automotive from Germany)\n(2011/724/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management, and in particular point 28 thereof,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, and in particular Article 12(3) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was established to provide additional support for workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation and to assist them with their reintegration into the labour market.\n(2)\nThe 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.\n(3)\nThe Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 allows the mobilisation of the EGF within the annual ceiling of EUR 500 million.\n(4)\nGermany submitted an application on 9 February 2011 to mobilise the EGF in respect of redundancies in five enterprises operating in the NACE Revision 2 Division 29 (‘Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers’) in the NUTS II regions of Arnsberg (DEA5) and Düsseldorf (DEA1) and supplemented it by additional information up to 28 April 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 4 347 868.\n(5)\nThe EGF should, therefore, be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution for the application submitted by Germany,\nHAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
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  "status": null,
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1."
    },
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 406, 30.12.2006, p. 1."
    }
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