{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1309/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1309",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014-2020) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1309",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Calculation of redundancies and of cessation of activity",
  "text": "1. The applicant Member State shall specify the method used for calculating the number of workers and self-employed persons referred to in Article 3 for the purpose of Article 4.\n2. The applicant Member State shall calculate the number referred to in paragraph 1 as at one of the following dates:\n(a) the date on which the employer, in accordance with Article 3(1) of Council Directive 98/59/EC, notifies the competent public authority in writing of the projected collective redundancies; in this case the applicant Member State shall provide the Commission with additional information on the actual number of redundancies effected according to Article 4(1) of this Regulation, prior to the completion of the assessment by the Commission;\n(b) the date of the employer's individual notice to lay off or to terminate the contract of employment of the worker;\n(c) the date of the de facto termination of the contract of employment or its expiry;\n(d) the end of the assignment to the user undertaking; or\n(e) for a self-employed person, the date of cessation of the activities as determined in accordance with national law or administrative provisions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies (OJ L 225, 12.8.1998, p. 16)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1309/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:05.987270+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}