The European Parliament approved a resolution proposing to extend European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) crisis measures until the end of 2013. In addition, MEPs backed the Commission's proposal to continue the EGF beyond the current multi-financial framework in a resolution adopted by show of hands.

MEPs approved without amendment a Commission proposal to extend until the end of 2013. This extends the possibility of making aid of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) available to a wider group of people who have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis.

MEPs also backed the Commission's proposal to continue the EGF beyond the current multi-financial framework in a resolution. They called on the Commission to clarify its plan, presented in its multiannual financial framework proposal, to extend the scope of the EGF in some agricultural sectors. They already called to extend this multiannual financial framework beyond 2013. On the other hand, a proposal to give the EGF its own budget line was rejected. Parliament urged the Commission to investigate why some Member States have not yet used the EGF, despite mass redundancies.

Since 2007, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) has been operational. In May 2009, prompted by the economic crisis, the European Parliament voted to change EGF rules so as to make aid available to wider group of redundant workers. In practice, this meant lowering the eligibility threshold from 1,000 to 500 redundancies and widening the scope to include job losses due to the crisis. For instance, recently the EGF was used to help Portugal's shoe industry.