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 Greece – EGF/2018/003 EL/Attica publishing
Date: 2018-10-04
Institutions: Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
Subjects: Attica, European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, Greece, commitment of expenditure, dismissal, employment aid, general budget (EU), globalisation, publishing, reintegration into working life

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 4.10.2018 COM(2018) 667 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 Greece – EGF/2018/003 EL/Attica publishing  
 
 
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  22  May  2018,  Greece  submitted  an  application  EGF/2018/003 EL/Attica 
publishing for a financial contribution from the EGF, following redundancies2 in the 
economic  sector  classified  under  the  NACE  Revision  2  Division  58  ('Publishing 
activities') in the NUTS level 2 region of Aττική (Attica) (EL30) in Greece. 

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/2018/003 EL/Attica publishing 

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

Date of submission of the application 

Date of acknowledgement of receipt of the 
application 

Greece 
Aττική (Attica) (EL30) 

22 May 2018 

22 May 2018 

Date of request for additional information 

1 August 2018 

Deadline for provision of the additional 
information 

12 September 2018 

Deadline for the completion of the assessment 

24 October 2018 

Intervention criterion 

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

Number of enterprises concerned 

3 

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

Division 58 (Publishing activities) 

Reference period (nine months): 

29 May 2017 – 28 February 2018 

Total number of redundancies 

Total number of eligible beneficiaries 

550 

550 

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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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Total number of targeted beneficiaries 
Budget for personalised services (EUR) 
Budget for implementing EGF5 (EUR) 
Total budget (EUR) 
EGF contribution (60 %) (EUR) 

550 
3 697 500 
150 000 
3 847 500 
2 308 500 

ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION 

Procedure 

4. 

Greece  submitted  application  EGF/2018/003 EL/Attica  publishing  within  12  weeks 
of  the  date  on  which  the  intervention  criteria  set  out  in  Article 4  of  the  EGF 
Regulation  were  met,  on  22  May  2018.  The  Commission  acknowledged  receipt  of 
the  application  on  the  same  date  and  requested additional information  from  Greece 
within  two  weeks  of  the  date  on  which  the  Commission  was  in  possession  of  the 
translation  of  the  application,  on  1  August  2018.  Such  additional  information  was 
provided  within  six  weeks  of  the  request,  on  1  August  2018.  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 24 October 2018. 

Eligibility of the application 

Intervention criteria 

5. 

Greece submitted the application under the intervention criteria of Article 4(1)(b) of 
the EGF Regulation, which requires at least 500 workers being made redundant over 
a  reference  period  of  nine  months  in  enterprises  operating  in  the  same  economic 
sector  defined  at  NACE  Revision  2  Division  and  located  in  one  region  or  two 
contiguous  regions  defined  at  NUTS  2  level  in  a  Member  State.  There  were  550 
redundancies in the economic sector classified under the NACE Revision 2 Division 
58 (Publishing activities) in the NUTS level 2 region of Aττική (Attica) (EL30)  

6. 

The reference period of nine months for the application runs from 29 May 2017 to 28 
February 2018. 

Enterprises and beneficiaries concerned 

7. 

Enterprises and number of dismissals within the reference period: 

Enterprises  

Dismissals within the reference period 

Lambrakis Press SA (DOL) 
Ethnos Publications SA 
Pegasus Magazines Publications 
Total no. of enterprises: 3 

Total no. of dismissals:  

324 
185 
41 
550 

Calculation of redundancies and of cessation of activity 

8. 

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All  the  redundancies  during  the  reference  period  have  been  calculated  as  from  the 
date  of  the  employer's  individual  notice  to  lay  off  or  to  terminate  the  contract  of 
employment of the worker. 

In accordance with the fourth paragraph of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013. 

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Eligible beneficiaries 

9. 

The total number of eligible beneficiaries is 550. 

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

10. 

In  order  to  establish  the  link  between  the  redundancies  the  global  financial  and 
economic crisis addressed in Regulation (EC) No 546/2009, Greece argues that over 
the  period  2008-2016  Greece’s  per  capita  real  GDP  declined  by  25 %,  (from 
EUR 22 600 to EUR 17 000) and unemployment increased by almost 16 percentage 
points (from 7,8 % to 23,6 %). 

Per capita GDP in thousands of Euro 
(2005-2016, constant 2010 prices) 

  EU28  

  Greece 

Source INE GSEE6, based on AMECO7 data. 

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Source INE/GSEE. Hellenic economy and employment. Annual report 2017 
AMECO is the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for 
Economic and Financial Affairs. 

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Total unemployment rate (%)  
 Percentage of active population  

30

25

20

15

10

5

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

  EU28 

  Greece 

Source: Eurostat8 

11. 

12. 

Furthermore, to deal with foreign debt repayments, since 2008 the Greek government 
has been taking unpopular measures such as increasing tax rates, streamlining public 
expenditure and decreasing public employees' salaries. Salaries in the private sector 
have also been decreasing in an attempt to increase the competitiveness of the Greek 
economy. 

Over the period January 2008-January 2018, there was a rise in the minimum wage 
in  the  EU  Member  States.  Only  Greece  showed  a  decrease  of  14 %  in  the  national 
minimum wage. 

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Note: Denmark, Italy, Cyprus, Austria, Finland and Sweden: no national minimum wage 

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(2) January 2008 and average annual rate change not available  

Source: Eurostat (online data code earn_mw_cur) 

13. 

According  to  the  results  of  the  Labor  force  survey  of  Q2 2016,  the  percentage  of 
workers/employees  whose  monthly  earnings  were  below  EUR 700,  increased  by 
about  26  percentage  points  (from  13,1 %  to  38,8 %)  over  the  period  2009-2016; 
while the number of workers/employees earning more than EUR 700 decreased in all 
salary brackets9. 

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Evolution of the salaries in the private sector in Greece 
(2009-2016) 

(*) Do not know or do not respond 

Source INE/GSEE, based on ELSTAT, Labour Force Survey (Q2 2009 and Q2 2016)10 

14. 

Because  of  rising  unemployment  and  decreasing  salaries,  household  income  in 
Greece has been declining since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis in 
2008.  The  immediate  effect  of  this  decline  has  been  a  decrease  in  consumption. 
Household consumption in Greece steadily declined over the period 2008-2013 and 
has been flat since then. Households have substantially cut all non-essential expenses 
and reduced some of the essential ones. 

Household Income and Consumption in Euros 
(Greece, Q4 2008 – Q2 2016, constant 2010 prices) 

Income available  

  Consumption  
Source INE GSEE11, based on Eurostat data 

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15. 

Over  the  period  2011-2017,  daily  and  periodical  press  sales  plummeted  in  Greece. 
Newspapers  sales  fell  from  144  million  copies  in  2011  to  57  million  in  2017  and 
magazines sales fell from 60 million copies to 23 million. The steady decline is the 
consequence of the economic and financial crisis whose effects still affect the Greek 
economy  (reduced  household  income,  high  unemployment,  etc.)  coupled  with  the 
rapid digital evolution, which is transforming the publishing sector. 

Daily and Periodical Press sales 2012-2017 
% year over year 

2012 

2013 

2014 

2015 

2016 

2017 

-18,9 

-10,5 

-8,9 

-10,7 

-15,9 

-19,6 

-22 

-15,0 

-7,3 

-19,8 

-9,0 

-15,4 

Daily press 
(newspapers) 

Periodical press 
(magazines) 

Source: IBHS base on ELSTADT’s Daily and periodical press survey 201712 

16. 

17. 

The  current  application  is  a  follow  up  of  application  EGF/2014/018  GR  Attica 
publishing. The arguments provided at the time remain valid. 

To  date,  the  Publishing  activities  sector  has  been  the  subject  of  three  EGF 
applications, all of them based on the global financial and economic crisis13. 

Events giving rise to the redundancies and cessation of activity 

18. 

19. 

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The  events  giving  rise  to  these  redundancies  are  the  great  cut  back  in  advertising 
expenditure of big advertisers, such car producers and banks, and the decline in daily 
and periodical press sales; both triggered by the economic downturn. The decline in 
sales is also related to readers audiences' shift from printed press to electronic press 
due  to  easy  accessibility  to  the  contents  and  its  immediacy,  but  also  caused  by  the 
fact that the digital version of newspapers is mainly free (64 % of the respondents to 
the  survey  on  'the  impact  of  electronic  media  in  the  change  of  reader's  attitudes' 
agreed that they no longer choose printed information as they did in the past due to 
its cost14). 

Publishing  companies  met  serious  problems  in  terms  of  viability,  as  their  turnover 
worsened  during  the  crisis  period.  Over  the  decade  2005-2014,  the  publishing 
sector’s  turnover  fell  by  56,4 %.  Throughout  the  past  three  years,  the  turnover  has 
further  declined  by  14,3 %  in  2015,  8,3 %  in  2016  and  19,5 %  in  2017,  reflecting 
both the drop in advertising revenue and in sales revenue. The difficulties to access 
loans  and  the  cash  flow  shortage,  as  a  side  effect  of  the  recession  of  the  Greek 

Ibid 
https://www.ibhs.gr/joomla-pages/joomla-content/list-all-categories/23-news/arthrography/172-
newspapers-magazines 
EGF/2009/024 NL Noord Holland and Zuid Holland publishing, COM(2010) 532 
EGF/2014/018 GR Attica publishing, COM(2015) 040 and the current application. 
The influence of electronic media on the changing attitudes of the reading audience towards the printed 
press. Karamanlis Michalis, Athens, September 2016 

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economy,  added  to  the  difficulties  of  the  enterprises  in  the  publishing  sector,  this 
resulting in suspension of activities, auctioning the enterprises and redundancies. 

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

20. 

21. 

22. 

All  the  redundancies  occurred  in  Attica.  The  expected  impact  in  the  territoriy  is 
linked  to  the  difficulties  of  redeployment  due  to  the  scarcity  of  jobs  and  the  great 
number of job-seekers, in particular long-term.  

Although  the  Greek  unemployment  rate  has  been  declining  since  2014,  when  it 
reached  its  highest  peak  (27,2 %);  in  January  2018  unemployment  was  still  above 
20 %15  and  long-term  unemployment  (>12  months)  represented  55,2 %  of  total 
unemployment16. 

Attica accounts for 34,7 % of total Greek unemployment and for 36 % of long term 
unemployment.  In  addition,  in  this  region  long-term  job-seekers  are  57,4 %  of  the 
total job-seekers (two percentage points higher than the national average)17.  

Targeted beneficiaries and proposed actions 

Targeted beneficiaries 

23. 

All  the  550  redundant  workers  are  expected  to  participate  in  the  measures.  The 
breakdown of these workers by sex, citizenship and age group is as follows: 

Sex: 

Category 

Men: 

Women: 

Citizenship:  EU citizens: 

non-EU citizens: 

Age group: 

15-24 years: 

25-29 years: 

30-54 years: 

55-64 years: 

over 64 years: 

Number of  
targeted beneficiaries 

320  (58,18 %) 

230  (41,82 %) 

549  (99,82 %) 

1 

3 

6 

(0,18 %) 

(0,55 %) 

(1,09 %) 

460  (83,63 %) 

80  (14,55 %) 

1 

(0,18 %) 

Eligibility of the proposed actions 

24. 

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

– 

Occupational  guidance:  This  accompanying  measure  will  be  offered  to  all 
participants and consists of individual sessions (except the general information 
session which will be a collective session) covering the following stages: 

1. General  information.  This  first  measure  addressed  to  all  workers  provides 
basic information about the project and their prospects as participants. 

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Source: ELSTAT, press release of 12 April 2018 
Source: OAED. Unemployed job-seekers registered in OAED, January 2018 
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2. Intake and registration. This includes information on available services and 
training programmes and on skills and training requirements.  

3. Personal and occupational paper. This is intended to help workers to identify 
their  own  strengths  and  weaknesses,  the  opportunities  related  to  their  own 
interests, and to establish a realistic career plan. Following these assessments, a 
personal  and  occupational  paper  is  put  together,  setting  out  an  individual 
project and an action plan. 

4. Job-search  support  and  career  guidance.  This  includes:  (1) training  in 
horizontal  issues  such  as  development  of  social  skills,  adjustment  to  new 
situations and decision making; (2) job-search assistance including information 
on  available  jobs,  active  research  of  the  local  and  regional  employment 
opportunities, job-search techniques, and training on drafting of CVs and cover 
letters and how to prepare a job interview; (3) career guidance. The counsellors 
will provide vocational guidance to the dismissed workers and will steer them 
towards specific job offers. 

5. Guidance  towards  employment.  The  counsellors  will  also  accompany  the 
workers  during  the  implementation  of  their  training  pathways  and  individual 
plans  of  reintegration  into  employment.  The  participants  interested  in  setting 
towards 
up  a  business  will  receive  general  support  and  counselling 
entrepreneurship in the framework of this stage. 

6. Monitoring. This provides for a follow up of the participants during the six 
months that follow the end of the implementation of the measures. This activity 
will be carried out at Member State expense. 

Training,  retraining  and  vocational  training.  This  measure  consists  in 
providing vocational training courses which correspond to recognised needs in 
the labour market  and in  areas  and  sectors  with  good  development  prospects. 
The  trainings  will  also  cater  for  the  workers'  needs,  as  identified  during  the 
occupational  guidance.  Two  types  of  training  will  be  provided:  vocational 
training programmes (300 hours each) as well as specialised courses leading to 
certification  or  licences  and  educational  programmes.  The  planned  training 
offer reflects the more popular training  among the workers of the case Attica 
I18,  such  as  business  administration;  e-commerce;  sales,  marketing  and  social 
media;  basic  and  advanced  IT skills;  web  design;  and logistics.  Yet, the  final 
training offer will integrate the outcome of the occupational guidance. 

Contribution  to  business  start-up.  The  workers  who  set  up  their  own 
businesses will receive up to EUR 15 000, as a contribution to cover setting-up 
costs.  In  Greece,  one  of  the  major  difficulties  that  entrepreneurs  face  when 
starting  up  a  business  is  access  to  funding.  Banks  turn  down  the  majority  of 
loan  requests  due  to  the  shortage  of  cash.  This  measure  aims  to  promote 
entrepreneurship through this financial support. 

Job-search  allowance  and  training  allowance.  To  cover  the  expenses 
incurred  when  participating  in  the  occupational  guidance  activities,  the 
beneficiaries  will  receive  EUR 40  per  day  of  participation.  While  in  training 
the allowance will be EUR 3,33 per hour. 

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EGF/2014/018 GR Attica publishing, COM(2015) 040 

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Hiring incentives. This payment benefits the redundant workers by facilitating 
their re-employment in a different enterprise. The hiring enterprise will receive 
EUR 650  per  month  for  a  maximum  of  six  months,  on  condition  the  worker 
will be kept in the job once the incentive has ended, for at least additional six 
months. 

25. 

26. 

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. 

Greece 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 

27. 

The  estimated 
personalised  services  of  EUR 3 697 500  and  expenditure 
management, 
EUR 150 000. 

total  costs  are  EUR 3 847 500,  comprising  expenditure  for 
for  preparatory, 
information  and  publicity,  control  and  reporting  activities  of 

28. 

The total financial contribution requested from the EGF is EUR 2 308 500 (60 % of 
total costs). 

Actions 

Estimated 
number of 
participants 

Estimated cost 
per participant 
(EUR) 

Estimated total 
costs 
(EUR)19  

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

Ocupational guidance  
(Επαγγελματική συμβουλευτική) 

Training, retraining and vocational training 
(Επαγγελματική Κατάρτιση, Εξειδικευμένη 
κατάρτιση) 

Contribution to business start-up 
(Συνεισφορά για σύσταση επιχείρησης)  

550 

1 250 

687 500 

550 

1 573 

865 000 

60 

15 000 

900 000 

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

– 

2 452 500 

(66,33 %) 

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

Job-search allowance  

Training allowance 

550 

500 

1 000 

550 000 

1 000 

500 000 

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Totals do not tally due to rounding. 

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Hiring incentives 
(Επιδότηση θέσεων εργασίας)  

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) 

50 

3 900 

195 000 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

1 245 000 

(33,67 %) 

10 000 

80 000 

30 000 

30 000 

150 000 

(3,90 %) 

3 847 500 

2 308 500 

29. 

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. Greece confirmed that these actions are conditional 
on  the  active  participation  of  the  targeted  beneficiaries  in  job-search  or  training 
activities. 

30. 

Greece 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 

31. 

32. 

Greece  started  providing  the  personalised  services  to  the  targeted  beneficiaries  on 
22 August  2018.  The  expenditure  on  the  actions  will  therefore  be  eligible  for  a 
financial contribution from the EGF from 22 August 2018 to 22 August 2020. 

Greece  started  incurring  the  administrative  expenditure  to  implement  the  EGF  on 
22 June  2018.  The  expenditure  for  preparatory,  management,  information  and 
publicity,  control  and  reporting  activities  shall  therefore  be  eligible  for  a  financial 
contribution from the EGF from 22 June 2018 to 22 February 2021.  

Complementarity with actions funded by national or Union funds 

33. 

34. 

The source of national pre-financing or co-funding is the National Public Investment 
Programme of the Greek Ministry of Economy and Development). 

Greece  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. 

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

35. 

Greece  has  indicated  that  the  application  and  the  co-ordinated  package  of 
personalised  services  were  discussed  by  representatives  of  the  Journalist's  union  of 
Athens  daily  newspapers  (ΕΣΗΕΑ),  the  Athens  daily  publications  worker's 
association (ΕΠΗΕΑ) and the Ministry of Labour on 11 May 2018.  

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Management and control systems 

36. 

The application contains a description of the management and control system, which 
specifies  the  responsibilities  of  the  bodies  involved.  Greece  has  notified  the 
Commission  that  the  financial  contribution  will  be  managed  and  controlled  as 
follows: 

– 

– 

– 

the  NSRF20  Executive  Directorate  of  the  Ministry  of  Labour,  Social  Security 
and Social Solidarity will act as managing authority, 

the EDEL (the Financial Audit Committee) as audit authority, and 

the Special Service for Certification and Verification of Co-financed Programs 
of  the  Ministry  of  Economy,  Infrastructure,  Tourism  and  Marine  as 
certification authority. 

Commitments provided by the Member State concerned 

37. 

Greece has provided all necessary assurances regarding the following:  

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

– 

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, 

the dismissing enterprises,  which  have  continued their activities after  the lay-
offs,  have  complied  with  their  legal  obligations  governing  the  redundancies 
and provided for their 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 

38. 

39. 

40. 

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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 2 308 500, 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 

National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 
OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 884. 

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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 

41. 

42. 

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 2 308 500. 

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 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 Greece – EGF/2018/003 EL/Attica publishing 

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) 

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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 22 May 2018, Greece submitted an application to mobilise the EGF, in respect of 
redundancies  in  the  economic  sector  classified  under  the  Statistical  classification  of 
economic  activities  in  the  European  Community  ('NACE')  Revision  2  Division  58 
(Publishing  activities)  in  the  Nomenclature  of  Territorial  Units  for  Statistics 
('NUTS')26 level 2 region of Aττική (Attica) (EL30) in Greece. It was supplemented by 
additional  information  provided  in  accordance  with  Article 8(3)  of  Regulation  (EU) 
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. 

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). 
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). 

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(4) 

(5) 

The EGF should, therefore, be mobilised in order to provide a financial contribution of 
EUR 2 308 500 in respect of the application submitted by Greece. 

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

HAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:  

For the general budget of the Union for the financial year 2018, the European Globalisation 
Adjustment Fund shall be mobilised to provide the amount of EUR 2 308 500 in commitment 
and payment appropriations. 

Article 1 

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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