Text tabled : A7-0378/2011

  Maria do Céu Patrão Neves (PPE), in writing. – (PT) The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was created to provide additional support for workers affected by the consequences of major structural changes in the patterns of world trade. On 22 September 2011, the Commission adopted a new proposal for a decision on the mobilisation of the EGF for Greece, with the aim of supporting the reintegration into the labour market of workers made redundant as a result of the global economic and financial crisis. The 18th application to be examined within the framework of the 2011 budget, this relates to the mobilisation of a total sum of EUR 2 918 500 from the EGF for Greece, with regard to 642 redundancies, all of which are targeted for assistance, from two enterprises in the retail sector (‘supermarket and supplier’) operating in the regions of Central Macedonia and Attica, as well as other Greek regions, such as Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, Western Macedonia, Epirus, Western Greece, Mainland Greece and Peloponnese, during the five-month reference period from 4 November 2010 to 4 March 2011. As all of the requirements necessary to apply this financial assistance mechanism have been met, I voted for this report.