Proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund following an application from Italy – EGF/2017/004 IT/Almaviva
Date: 2017-09-26
Institutions: Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
Subjects: European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, Italy, Latium, administrative personnel, collective dismissal, commitment of expenditure, employment aid, financial aid, general budget, reintegration into working life

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 26.9.2017  COM(2017) 496 final   Proposal for a DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund following an application from Italy – EGF/2017/004 IT/Almaviva  
 
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL 

1. 

2. 

3. 

The  rules  applicable  to  financial  contributions  from  the  European  Globalisation 
Adjustment  Fund  (EGF)  are  laid  down  in  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 1927/20061 (the ‘EGF Regulation’). 

On  9  May  2017,  Italy  submitted  an  application  EGF/2017/004 IT/Almaviva  for  a 
financial  contribution  from  the  EGF,  following  redundancies2  in  Almaviva  Contact 
SpA in Italy. 

Following  its  assessment  of  this  application,  the  Commission  has  concluded,  in 
accordance with all applicable provisions of the EGF Regulation, that the conditions 
for awarding a financial contribution from the EGF are met.  

SUMMARY OF THE APPLICATION 

EGF application 

EGF/2017/004 IT/Almaviva 

Member State 
Region(s) concerned (NUTS3 level 2) 

Date of submission of the application 

Date of acknowledgement of receipt of the 
application 

Italy 

Lazio (ITI4) 
9 May 2017 

9 May 2017 

Date of request for additional information 

23 May 2017 

Deadline for provision of the additional 
information 

4 July 2017 

Deadline for the completion of the assessment 

26 September 2017 

Intervention criterion 

Primary enterprise 

Article 4(1)(a) of the EGF Regulation 

Almaviva Contact Spa 

Number of enterprises concerned 

1 

Sector(s) of economic activity 
(NACE Revision 2 Division)4 

Division 82 (Office administrative, 
office support and other business 
support activities) 

Reference period (four months): 

30 December 2016 – 30 April 2017 

Number of redundancies during the reference 
period (a) 

1 610 

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OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 855. 
Within the meaning of Article 3 of the EGF Regulation. 
Commission  Regulation  (EU)  No 1046/2012  of  8  November  2012  implementing  Regulation  (EC) 
No 1059/2003  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  on  the  establishment  of  a  common 
classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) as regards the transmission of the time series for 
the new regional breakdown (OJ L 310, 9.11.2012, p. 34). 
OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1. 

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Number of redundancies before or after the 
reference period (b) 

Total number of redundancies (a + b) 

Total number of eligible beneficiaries 

Total number of targeted beneficiaries 

Budget for personalised services (EUR) 
Budget for implementing EGF5 (EUR) 

Total budget (EUR) 

EGF contribution (60 %) (EUR) 

ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION 

Procedure 

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1 646 

1 646 

1 610 

5 355 950 

223 000 

5 578 950 

3 347 370 

4. 

Italy submitted application EGF/2017/004 IT/Almaviva within 12 weeks of the date 
on  which  the  intervention  criteria  set  out  in  Article 4  of  the  EGF  Regulation  were 
met, on 9 May 2017. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the application the 
same  date  and  requested  additional  information  from  Italy  on  23  May  2017.  Such 
additional information was provided within six weeks. The deadline of 12 weeks of 
the receipt of the complete application within which the Commission should finalise 
its  assessment  of  the  application's  compliance  with  the  conditions  for  providing  a 
financial contribution expires on 26 September 2017.  

Eligibility of the application 

Enterprises and beneficiaries concerned 

5. 

The application relates to 1 646 workers made redundant in Almaviva Contact Spa. 
The enterprise operates in the economic sector classified under the NACE Revision 2 
Division  82  (Office  administrative,  office  support  and  other  business  support 
activities). The redundancies are located in the NUTS level 2 region of Lazio (ITI4). 

Intervention criteria 

6. 

7. 

8. 

Italy submitted the application under the intervention criteria of Article 4(1)(a) of the 
EGF Regulation,  which requires at  least  500 workers being made  redundant  over  a 
reference  period  of  four  months  in  an  enterprise  in  a  Member  State,  including 
workers  made  redundant  by  suppliers  and  downstream  producers  and  /  or  self-
employed persons whose activity has ceased. 

The reference period of four months for the application runs from 30 December 2016 
to 30 April 2017. 
The redundancies during the reference period are 1 6106 workers made redundant in 
Almaviva. 

Calculation of redundancies and of cessation of activity 

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The 1 610 redundancies during the reference period have been calculated as from the 
date of the de facto termination of the contract of employment or its expiry. 

In accordance with the fourth paragraph of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013. 
Over the reference period 1 627 workers were made redundant by Almaviva SpA. However, later on, 17 
were offer a position in another work centre of the same enterprise. These 17 workers are not counted as 
redundant for the purpose of this application.  

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Eligible beneficiaries 

10. 

In  addition  to  the  workers  already  referred  to,  the  eligible  beneficiaries  include  36 
workers  made  redundant  after  the  reference  period  of  four  months.  A  clear  causal 
link  can  be  established  with  the  event  which  triggered  the  redundancies  during  the 
reference period7. 

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The total number of eligible beneficiaries is therefore 1 646. 

Link  between  the  redundancies  and  the  global  financial  and  economic  crisis  addressed  in 
Regulation (EC) No 546/2009 

12. 

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14. 

In order to establish the link between the redundancies and the global financial and 
economic crisis addressed in Regulation (EC) No 546/2009, Italy, citing a study of 
the Italian parliament on work relationships at call centers in  Italy8, argues  that the 
effects of the economic and financial crisis do not seem to have lowered the demand 
for  marketing  services  and  assistance  to  buyers  of  goods  and  services,  but  it  has 
significantly affected the remuneration offered for such services (pressure on prices), 
with evident negative effects on the margins of profitability of the services providers. 
The restrictions imposed by the crisis and the need to rationalize expenditures for the 
acquisition  of  goods  and  services  have  often  led  to  the  award  of  contracts  on  the 
basis of maximum price reductions. This had a direct impact on the turnover of the 
service  providers  which  has  been  declining  over  the  period  2011-2016.  The  call 
center  sector,  confirming  its  reputation  for  low  profitability,  saw  a  falling  gross 
operating  margin  (from  5,7 %  in  2013  to  3,8%  in  2014)9.  Over the  same  period its 
return on equity also worsened, from 9,4 % to -6,3 %10. 

Most  of  the  jobs  in  the  call  center  sector  are  in  enterprises  which  act  on  behalf  of 
third  parties  (enterprises  or  public  administrations).  Therefore,  these  jobs  are 
extremely  exposed  to  fluctuations in  the  demand  for  call  center  services  and  to  the 
competition  among  services  providers.  Furthermore,  one  of  the  peculiarities  of  the 
call center sector is that the overwhelming majority of production costs (between 70 
and 80 percent of total costs11) are the costs of the labor force providing the service.  

In  a  context  of  adverse  conditions  (such  as  tendering  by  pulling  prices  down, 
declining  sales  and  profitability,  price  of  services  plummeting,  and  the  need  of 
reducing  the  weight  of  staff  costs  in  the  total  of  production  costs)  the  solution 
frequently  adopted  by  the  enterprises  operating  in  the  call  center  sector  have  been 
either  relocation  to  countries  with  cheaper  labor  costs,  interventions  on  the  cost  of 
labor  or  closure.  During  the  period  2009-2014Q1  a  third  of  the  enterprises  in  the 
sector ceased activity, a large majority of these through insolvency proceedings12. 

15. 

To  date,  the  Office  administrative,  office  support  and  other  business  support 
activities sector — to which the call-center activities belong — has been the subject 

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This refers to workers affected by the ban on dismissal (art. 54 of Decreto Legislativo 151/2001) which 
will be made redundant at the end of the protection period. 
https://www.cliclavoro.gov.it/Normative/Decreto_Legislativo_26_marzo_2001_n.151.pdf 
Work relationships at call centres in Italy. 
(http://www.camera.it/leg17/824?tipo=C&anno=2014&mese=12&giorno=11&view=&commissione=1
1&pagina=#) 
Asso  contact  –Assoziazione  nazionale  dei  contact  center  in  outsourcing.  Annual  meeting  2016 
http://www.assocontact.it/Documenti/VERBALI_ASSEMBLEE/02-Presentazione-Urbano-
Granata_DATABANK-CERVED.pdf 
Íbid.. 
Work relationships at call centres in Italy. Op. cit. 
Work relationships at call centres in Italy. Op. cit. 

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of two EGF  applications, one based on trade related globalisation13  and  the current 
application based on the global financial and economic crisis. 

Events giving rise to the redundancies and cessation of activity 

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The events giving rise to these redundancies are revenue decline, which fell by more 
than 45 %  in Almaviva's  work center  in  Rome  in  2015 compared  to  2011;  coupled 
with the negative outcome of the negotiation with the RSU14 in 2016 and its rejection 
of the plan to align the labour cost in Almaviva-Rome with other Almaviva's work 
centers in Italy, which included the temporary reduction of labour costs and increase 
of efficiency and productivity; this resulting in the closure of the Rome work center 
and 1 646 redundancies. 

Expected impact of the redundancies as regards the local, regional or national economy and 
employment 

17. 

The  redundancies  in  Almaviva  occurred  in  a  regional  and  local  context  (Lazio  and 
Rome), where mass layoffs — as in this case of more than 1,600 people and mostly 
women — will impoverish the regional and local economy. Furthermore, the layoffs 
occurred in an economic context which is slowly recovering vitality, especially in the 
last  two  years  (2014-2016),  after  the  great  difficulties  resulting  from  the  economic 
and financial crisis. This recovery is at risk of being stopped or interrupted as a result 
of mass redundancies resulting either from off-shoring to non-EU countries or from 
other  factors  such  as  in  this  case  downturn  in  bidding  prices,  compression  of  the 
price  of  services,  etc.  Thus,  making  available  active  labour  market  actions  and 
services, such as those co-financed by the EGF, will be of great importance to better 
accompany the reintegration into employment of the workers. 

Targeted beneficiaries and proposed actions 

Targeted beneficiaries 

18. 

The estimated number of redundant workers expected to participate in the measures 
is  1 610.  The  breakdown  of  these  workers  by  sex,  citizenship  and  age  group  is  as 
follows: 

Sex: 

Category 

Men: 

Women: 

Citizenship:  EU citizens: 

Number of  
targeted beneficiaries 

334 

(20,7 %) 

1 276 

(79,3 %) 

1 568 

(97,4 %) 

non-EU citizens: 

42 

(2,6 %) 

Age group: 

15-24 years: 

25-29 years: 

30-54 years: 

55-64 years: 

over 64 years: 

0 

4 

(0,0 %) 

(0,2 %) 

1 371 

(85,2 %) 

223 

(13,9 %) 

12 

(0,7 %) 

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EGF/2012/001 IE Talk Talk Broadband Services Ltd. COM(2012) 423. 
The unified trade union representation in Italy (abbreviation RSU) is a collective body representative of 
all workers employed in the same public or private body, regardless of their unión membership. 

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Eligibility of the proposed actions 

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The  personalised  services  to  be  provided  to  redundant  workers  consist  of  the 
following actions:  

Actions for which EGF cofunding is requested: 

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– 

– 

– 

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Individual  orientation:  This  includes  skill  assessment,  profiling  of  the 
participant workers and the design of the customised reintegration pathway. as 
well as the enrolment procedure. 

Job search. This will involve an intensive employment search, including search 
for local and regional employment opportunities and job-matching. 

Training,  retraining  and  vocational  training.  The  participants  will  be  offered 
vocational training aimed at the requalification or the upskilling of the workers 
to  cater  for  the  job  opportunities  identified  during  the  intensive  employment 
search. 

(public  or  private).  Reflecting 

Reemployment voucher granting an amount to be spent in intensive job-search 
the 
services  at  accredited  providers 
employability  of  the  worker,  the  value  of  the  voucher  can  vary  between  500 
and  5 000  euros.  Service  providers  will  be  remunerated  on  the  basis  of  the 
employability of the worker and the type of contract concluded, ranging from 
EUR 500  to  2 500  for  fixed  term  contract  of  at  least  six  months  and  from 
EUR 1 000  to  5 000  for  permanent  contracts.  Whenever  it  has  not  been 
possible to find a solution for the redundant worker, the service provider will 
receive  a  fixed  amount  (fee  for  services)  per  participant.  The  fee  for  services 
cannot exceed EUR 106,5. 

Support  towards  entrepreneurship.  A  wide  array  of  supports  will  be  made 
available  to  redundant  workers  who  are  considering  starting  their  own 
businesses. 

Contribution to business start-up. Workers who start their own businesses will 
receive  up  to  EUR 15 000  to  cover  setting-up  costs,  investment  in  assets  and 
current expenditure. 

The  reimbursement  of  the  expenses  for  carers  of  dependent  persons  up  to 
EUR 1 700  is  foreseen.  This  aims  to  cover  the  additional  costs  faced  by  the 
participants  with  caring  responsibilities  (children,  elderly,  disabled  persons, 
etc.), in order to avail themselves of training or other measures. 

Reimbursement of mobility costs. To support the geographical mobility of the 
workers in the case of reemployment in an enterprise at 80 km or  more from 
the  place  of  residence  of  the  worker,  a  reimbursement  of  the  initial 
accommodation and transport costs up to EUR 5 000 is foreseen. 

Actions  to  be  financed  either  by  the  ESF  or  only  with  national  funds  which 
complement the EGF co-funded services: 

– 

– 

towards 
Intake:  Informative  session  on  available  services,  orientation 
reintegration  into  employment,  making  also  available  specific  active  search 
tools. This is the first measure and will be provided to all participants. 

Specific orientation for workers over 60 years, including promotion of services 
of social utility and accompaniment towards retirement. 

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20. 

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Hiring benefits15. The enterprises recruiting  former workers  of Almaviva will 
received  up  to  EUR 8 000  for  full-time  permanent  contract.  The  benefits  will 
be pro-rata for part-time permanent contracts. 

The  proposed  actions,  here  described,  constitute  active  labour  market  measures 
within the eligible actions set out in Article 7 of the EGF Regulation. These actions 
do not substitute passive social protection measures. 

Italy  has  provided  the  required  information  on  actions  that  are  mandatory  for  the 
enterprise concerned by virtue of national law or pursuant to collective agreements. 
They have confirmed that a financial contribution from the EGF will not replace such 
actions. 

Estimated budget 

22. 

The  estimated 
personalised  services  of  EUR 5 355 950  and  expenditure 
management, 
EUR 223 000. 

total  costs  are  EUR 5 578 950,  comprising  expenditure  for 
for  preparatory, 
information  and  publicity,  control  and  reporting  activities  of 

23. 

The total financial contribution requested from the EGF is EUR 3 347 370 (60 % of 
total costs). 

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Action within the regional operational programme Lazio FSE 2014-2020. 

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Actions 

Estimated 
number of 
participants 

Estimated cost 
per participant 
(EUR)16 

Estimated total 
costs 
(EUR)17  

Personalised services (Actions under Article 7(1)(a) and (c) of the EGF Regulation) 

Individual orientation 
(Servizio di orientamento individuale) 

Job search 
(Scouting de la domanda) 

1 610 

70 

112 700 

650 

105 

68 250 

Training, retraining and vocational training 
(Formazione e riqualificazione professionale)  

750 

533 

400 000 

Reemployment voucher 
(Assegno di ricollocazione) 

Support towards entrepreneurship 
(Servizio di supporto all'auto-impiego)  

Contribution to business start-up 
(Incentivo per l'avvio di nuove imprese)  

1 360 

1 379 

1 875 000 

110 

2 909 

320 000 

110 

15 000 

1 650 000 

Sub-total (a): 
Percentage of the package of personalised services  

– 

4 425 950 

(82,6 %) 

Allowances and incentives (Actions under Article 7(1)(b) of the EGF Regulation) 

Reimbursement of the expenses for carers of 
dependent persons  (Misure di conciliazione)  

400 

1 700 

680 000 

Reimbursement of mobility costs 
(Indemnità per la mobilità territoriale) 

50 

5 000 

250 000 

Sub-total (b): 
Percentage of the package of personalised services: 

 Actions under Article 7(4) of the EGF Regulation 

1. Preparatory activities 

2. Management 

3. Information and publicity 

4. Control and reporting 

Sub-total (c): 
Percentage of the total costs : 

Total costs (a + b + c): 

EGF contribution (60 % of total costs) 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

930 000 

(17,4 %) 

15 000 

115 000 

40 500 

52 500 

223 000 

(4,0 %) 

5 578 950 

3 347 370 

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To  avoid decimals,  the  estimated  costs  per  worker have been rounded. However  the rounding  has no 
impact on the total cost of each measure which remains as in the application submitted by Italy. 
Totals do not tally due to rounding. 

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24. 

The costs of the actions identified in the table above as actions under Article 7(1)(b) 
of  the  EGF  Regulation  do  not  exceed  35 %  of  the  total  costs  for  the  coordinated 
package  of  personalised  services.  Italy  confirmed  that  these  actions  are  conditional 
on  the  active  participation  of  the  targeted  beneficiaries  in  job-search  or  training 
activities. 

25. 

Italy confirmed that the costs of investments for self-employment, business start-ups 
and employee take-overs will not exceed EUR 15 000 per beneficiary. 

Period of eligibility of expenditure 

26. 

27. 

Italy  started  providing  the  personalised  services  to  the  targeted  beneficiaries  on 
6 April  201718.  The  expenditure  on  the  actions  will  therefore  be  eligible  for  a 
financial contribution from the EGF from 6 April 2017 to 9 May 2019. 

Italy  started  incurring  the  administrative  expenditure  to  implement  the  EGF  on 
1 March  2017.  The  expenditure  for  preparatory,  management,  information  and 
publicity,  control  and  reporting  activities  shall  therefore  be  eligible  for  a  financial 
contribution from the EGF from 1 March 2017 to 9 November 2019.  

Complementarity with actions funded by national or Union funds 

28. 

29. 

The sources of national pre-financing or co-funding are regional resources provided 
by  the  Legislative  Decree  no. 2017/185 (24.9.2016)  and  the  Fund  for  Vocational 
Training managed by ANPAL19. 

Italy  has  confirmed  that  the  measures  described  above  receiving  a  financial 
contribution  from  the  EGF  will  not  also  receive  financial  contributions  from  other 
Union financial instruments. Hiring benefits, which is an action within the regional 
operational  programme  Lazio  FSE  2014-2020,  complements  the  EGF  package  of 
measures, but it is not part of it.  

Procedures  for  consulting  the  targeted  beneficiaries  or  their  representatives  or  the  social 
partners as well as local and regional authorities 

30. 

Italy  has  indicated  that  a  committee  (constituted  by  the  Ministry  of  economic 
development  (MiSE)20,  ANPAL,  Regione  Lazio  and  trade  unions)  was  set  up  to 
define  the  strategy  and  interventions  in  support  of  former  Almaviva  workers.  The 
first consultations date back to 16 January 2017 (Regione Lazio authorities and trade 
unions). In subsequent meetings, and in particular in the meeting of 7 February 2017, 
the co-ordinated package of personalised services was drawn up.  

Management and control systems 

31. 

The application contains a description of the management and control system which 
specifies  the  responsibilities  of  the  bodies  involved.  Italy  has  notified  the 
Commission that the financial contribution will be managed by ANPAL as follows: 
ANPAL —  Divisione IV will act as  managing authority and ANPAL  — Divisione 
VI as certification authority. The Ministero del lavoro e delle politiche sociali-MLPS 
—  Secretariato  Generale  —  Divisione  II  will  act  as  audit  authority.  Regione  Lazio 
will be the intermediate body for the managing authority. 

Commitments provided by the Member State concerned 

32. 

Italy has provided all necessary assurances regarding the following:  

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Intake sessions, which is an action without any request for EGF co-funding started on 9 March 2017; 
whilst individual orientation (an EGF co-funded action) started on 6 April 2017. 
Agenzia Nazionale per le Politiche Attive del Lavoro (ANPAL). 
Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MiSE) 

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the principles of equality of treatment and non-discrimination will be respected 
in the access to the proposed actions and their implementation, 

the  requirements  laid  down  in  national  and  EU  legislation  concerning 
collective redundancies have been complied with, 

Almaviva Contact Spa , which has continued its activities after the lay-offs, has 
complied  with  its  legal  obligations  governing  the  redundancies  and  provided 
for workers accordingly, 

the proposed actions will not receive financial support from other Union funds 
or financial instruments and any double financing will be prevented, 

the  proposed  actions  will  be  complementary  with  actions  funded  by  the 
Structural Funds, 

the  financial  contribution  from  the  EGF  will  comply  with  the  procedural  and 
material Union rules on State aid. 

BUDGETARY IMPLICATION 

Budgetary proposal 

33. 

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35. 

The  EGF  shall  not  exceed  a  maximum  annual  amount  of  EUR 150 million  (2011 
prices),  as  laid  down  in  Article 12  of  Council  Regulation  (EU,  Euratom) 
No 1311/2013  of  2  December  2013  laying  down  the  multiannual  financial 
framework for the years 2014-202021. 

Having examined the application in respect of the conditions set out in Article 13(1) 
of  the  EGF  Regulation,  and  having  taken  into  account  the  number  of  targeted 
beneficiaries, the proposed actions and the estimated costs, the Commission proposes 
to mobilise the EGF for the amount of EUR 3 347 370, representing 60 % of the total 
costs  of  the  proposed  actions,  in  order  to  provide  a  financial  contribution  for  the 
application. 

The  proposed  decision  to  mobilise  the  EGF  will  be  taken  jointly  by  the  European 
Parliament  and  the  Council,  as  laid  down  in  point  13  of  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 management22. 

Related acts 

36. 

37. 

At the same time as it presents this proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF, the 
Commission will present to the European Parliament and to the Council a proposal 
for a transfer to the relevant budgetary line for the amount of EUR 3 347 370. 

At the same time as  it adopts  this  proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF, the 
Commission  will  adopt  a  decision  on  a  financial  contribution,  by  means  of  an 
implementing  act,  which  will  enter  into  force  on  the  date  at  which  the  European 
Parliament and the Council adopt the proposed decision to mobilise the EGF. 

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OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 884. 
OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 1. 

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Proposal for a 

DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund following an 
application from Italy – EGF/2017/004 IT/Almaviva 

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 1927/200623, 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 management24, and in particular point 13 thereof, 

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, 

Whereas: 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(5) 

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The  European  Globalisation  Adjustment  Fund  (EGF)  aims  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, or as a result of a 
new  global  financial  and  economic  crisis,  and  to  assist  them  with  their  reintegration 
into the labour market. 

The  EGF  is  not  to  exceed  a  maximum  annual  amount  of  EUR 150  million  (2011 
in  Article 12  of  Council  Regulation  (EU,  Euratom) 
prices),  as 
No 1311/201325. 

laid  down 

On  9  May  2017,  Italy  submitted  an  application  to  mobilise  the  EGF,  in  respect  of 
redundancies  in  Almaviva  Contact  SpA  in  Italy.  It  was  supplemented  by  additional 
(EU) 
information  provided 
No 1309/2013.  That  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. 

in  accordance  with  Article 8(3)  of  Regulation 

The EGF should, therefore, be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution of 
EUR 3 347 370 in respect of the application submitted by Italy. 

In  order  to  minimise  the  time  taken  to  mobilise  the  EGF,  this  decision  should  apply 
from the date of its adoption, 

OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 855. 
OJ C 373, 20.12.2013, p. 1. 
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). 

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HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:  

Article 1 

For the general budget of the Union for the financial year 2017, the European Globalisation 
Adjustment Fund shall be mobilised to provide the amount of EUR 3 347 370 in commitment 
and payment appropriations. 

Article 2 

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Union. It shall apply from [the date of its adoption]. 

Done at Brussels, 

For the European Parliament 
The President 

For the Council 
The President 

  

Date to be inserted by the Parliament before the publication in OJ. 

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