# Decision (EU) 2015/471 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Decision (EU) 2015/471 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2015 on the mobilisation of the European            Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application EGF/2014/011 BE/Caterpillar, from Belgium)         

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# Decision (EU) 2015/471 of the European Parliament and of the Council

# of 11 March 2015

# on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application EGF/2014/011 BE/Caterpillar, from Belgium)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to 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(1), and in particular Article 15(4) thereof,                        

Having regard to 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(2), and in particular point 13 thereof,                        

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

(1)The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was established to provide support for workers made redundant and self-employed                              persons whose activity has ceased as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, as                              a result of a continuation of the global financial and economic crisis addressed in Regulation (EC) No 546/2009 of the European                              Parliament and of the Council(3), or as a result of a new global financial and economic crisis and to assist them with their reintegration into the labour                              market.

(2)Article 12 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013(4) allows the mobilisation of the EGF within a maximum annual amount of EUR 150 million (2011 prices).

(3)Belgium submitted an application to mobilise the EGF, in respect of redundancies in Caterpillar Belgium S.A. in Belgium on                              22 July 2014 and supplemented it by additional information as provided by Article 8(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013. This                              application complies with the requirements for determining a financial contribution from the EGF as laid down in Article 13                              of Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013.

(4)The EGF should therefore be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution of an amount of EUR 1 222 854 for the application                              submitted by Belgium,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

For the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund shall                     be mobilised to provide the sum of EUR 1 222 854 in commitment and payment appropriations.                  

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision shall be published in the *Official Journal of the European Union*.                  

Done at Strasbourg, 11 March 2015.

*For the European Parliament*                            

*The President*                            

M. Schulz                            

*For the Council*                            

*The President*                            

Z. Kalniņa-Lukaševica                            

1

OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 855.                           

2

OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 1.                           

3

Regulation (EC) No 546/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1927/2006                              on establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (OJ L 167, 29.6.2009, p. 26).                           

4

Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years                              2014-2020 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 884).