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From · report parliamentary committee draft · 8 Nov 2024 BUDG-PR-765241 on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium – EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper
To · Plenary report · 22 Nov 2024 A-10-2024-0019 on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium – EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper
✦ In short · AI narration of the differences below, generated 4 Sept 2026

Adds requirements for member states to ensure visibility of Union funding and to respect workers' rights and collective redundancy rules. #1#3 Adds digital skills training to the list of personalised services and calls for proactive preventive measures in industries. #2#4 The other changes are formal: an explanatory statement with a committee opinion letter is added. #5

4 changes of substance, plus 1 formal. Each change below carries a one-line ✦ note from the same model. Written from the two texts only — read the highlighted passages before relying on it.

The changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations (“having regard to …”), standard resolution paragraphs and punctuation-only edits are left out — they are in “Show every difference”.

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Change #1 Substance

Replaces paragraph 6 with two paragraphs: one recalling that Belgian authorities must ensure visibility of Union funding, and another moving the original text to new paragraph 7, adding 'and Member States' as responsible for qualifications.

6. Considers it as a social responsibility of the Union to provide the affected workers with the necessary qualifications for future employment, considering the digital and ecological transition having a significant impact on their sectors whilst leading to a reduction of demand; welcomes the fact that the co-ordinated package of personalised services was drawn up by Belgium in consultation with targeted beneficiaries, their representatives and social partners;

6. Recalls that the Belgian authorities shall acknowledge the origin and ensure the visibility of the Union funding and highlight the Union added value of the intervention, by providing coherent, effective and targeted information to multiple audiences, including targeted information to beneficiaries, local and regional authorities, the social partners, the media and the public;

7. Considers it as a social responsibility of the Union and Member States to provide the affected workers a possibility to obtain the necessary qualifications for future employment, considering the digital and ecological transition having a significant impact on their sectors whilst leading to a reduction of demand; welcomes the fact that the co-ordinated package of personalised services was drawn up by Belgium in consultation with targeted beneficiaries, their representatives and social partners;

Change #2 Substance

Adds 'including training in digital skills' to the list of personalised services in paragraph 9.

8.9. Recalls that personalised services to be provided to the workers consist of the following actions: social intervention advisor, guidance, counselling, and vocational orientation, active job-search support, training, retraining and vocational training, including training in digital skills, as well as training at the workplace;

Change #3 Substance

Extends paragraph 13 to state that EGF assistance must not replace any allowances or rights of displaced workers, and adds a requirement that member states ensure compliance with national and Union law on collective redundancies.

12.13. Reiterates that assistance from the EGF must not replace actions which are the responsibility of companies, by virtue of national law or collective agreements;agreements, or any allowances or rights of the displaced workers, to ensure full additionality of the allocation; recalls that the Member States applying for funding support from the EGF must ensure that the requirements laid down in national and Union law concerning collective redundancies have been complied with and that the company concerned has provided for its workers accordingly;

Change #4 Substance

Adds paragraph 14 calling on Belgian authorities and other member states to proactively undertake preventive measures to adapt industries to globalisation and technological/environmental changes.

14. Calls on the Belgian authorities and other Member States to undertake the preventive measures in a proactive manner in order to adapt industries to the globalisation and of technological and environmental changes and protect workers from losing their jobs and other negative impact of the globalisation;