Text tabled : A7-0324/2012

  Maria do Céu Patrão Neves (PPE), in writing. – (PT) On 9 August 2012 the European Commission adopted, under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), a new proposal for a decision on the mobilisation of the EGF in favour of the Netherlands in order to support the reintegration in the labour market of workers made redundant due to major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation. This is the ninth application to be examined under the 2012 budget and refers to the mobilisation of a total amount of EUR 1 494 008 from the EGF for 616 redundancies, all of which are targeted for assistance, in Zalco Aluminium Zeeland Company NV and in two supplier firms (ECL Services Netherlands bv and Start) during the short reference period from 1 to 27 December 2011. With this procedure having been assessed by all of the parties involved, particularly the European Commission, and with the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs having been associated to the process and being in favour of the Fund being mobilised for the Netherlands, I voted in favour of this report.