Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/0226(BUD)
Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to support workers made redundant following an application from Belgium — EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch
Budget procedure (BUD): Parliament and the Council adopt the EU’s annual budget together. · First reading
A decision on EU spending: the annual budget, amending budgets or emergency funds.
Where it stands
Published as law
Completed: published in the Official Journal on 7 November 2024 and now EU law.
- Referred to committee(done) 17 September 2024
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 14 October 2024
- Tabled for plenary(done) 15 October 2024
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 22 October 2024
- Published as law(done) 7 November 2024
Decided in plenary
22 October 2024 · decision 5
Jobs, social affairs & equality, Budget decision
Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch
Passed 601 for · 47 against · 17 abstained by an overwhelming majority
AI summary:The decision releases EU funding for tailored measures such as training, business creation support and allowances to help 365 redundant workers back into jobs.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The versions differ only in formal and wording changes: the final text replaces the committee report's background and opinion with the adopted decision, and updates citations and punctuation.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report adds duties for Belgian authorities on gender equality and funding visibility, and stresses the challenge of reskilling older workers. It reframes the coordinated package's goal to sustainability and resilience, and adds a social responsibility for the Union in providing qualifications. It updates the description of Match-Smatch's economic situation and the Colruyt acquisition, and adds a monitoring role for the Commission. The other changes are formal: recital renumbering, removal of a redundant recital, and addition of a committee letter.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Budgets
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Michalis Hadjipantela (EPP)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Jean-Marc Germain (S&D), Bogdan Rzońca (ECR), Olivier Chastel (Renew), João Oliveira (The Left)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Regional Development
- Employment and Social Affairs· rapporteurJohan Danielsson (S&D)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 22 Oct 2024
AI summary:Parliament approves a financial contribution from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers for Belgium, following the displacement of workers at Match-Smatch.
Tabled for plenary· 15 Oct 2024
AI summary:Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers with EUR 2 661 564 for Belgium to support 365 former Match-Smatch workers in Wallonia.
Committee draft· 19 Sept 2024
AI summary:This draft report approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) for Belgium following 513 redundancies at Match-Smatch. It agrees with the Commission that Belgium is entitled to EUR 2 661 564, representing 85% of the total cost of EUR 3 131 252.
Timeline
Newest first.
Outcome 1 step
7 November 2024
Published in the Official Journal
The act is now EU law.
Plenary stage 2 steps
22 October 2024
Plenary vote
Sitting of 22 Oct 2024 Report A10-0009/2024Adopted text TA10-0025/2024
15 October 2024
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
14 October 2024
Committee vote: report adopted
BUDG (Budgets) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
3 October 2024
Committee opinion adopted
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
19 September 2024
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in BUDG (Budgets). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
17 September 2024
Referred to the BUDG (Budgets) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; REGI (Regional Development), EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) give an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/0226(BUD)