What changed
Adds calls for dialogue with new Tupperware representatives and for stronger industrial policy to safeguard employment. #1#2#3#4 Adds requirements for evaluations based on measurable results and explores EGF sustainability in the next financial framework. #5 Adds a formal opinion letter from the Employment Committee with background and procedural details. #6
5 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”.
Change #1 Substance
Adds a sentence regretting that the redundancies will aggravate the situation and stressing the need for swift action to prevent structural regional decline.
4. Notes that Tupperware was located in Aalst in the Province of East Flanders where only one in two people were employed, compared to two in three on average across the Flanders region, already before Tupperware’s bankruptcy; regrets that these redundancies will further aggravate the situation; stresses that swift action is needed to prevent structural regional decline;
Change #2 Substance
Adds a paragraph welcoming an initiative of European entrepreneurs to revive the Tupperware brand in several countries.
6. Welcomes an initiative of the group of European entrepreneurs aiming to revive the brand in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Poland;
Change #3 Substance
Adds a call for Belgian authorities to establish a dialogue with new Tupperware representatives to explore reintegration possibilities for displaced workers.
7.8. Recalls that, in agreement with trade unions, experts and social partners, personalised services to be provided to the workers consist of the following measures: information sessions for reintegration into employment, outplacement services, including ICT training; assistance in finding a job through guidance and job-search assistance, training and retraining, job fair, job-scouting and job-matching; emphasises the importance of fostering high-quality, future-oriented jobs to ensure long-term economic and social resilience; calls on for Belgian authorities to establish a dialogue with the new European Tupperware representatives to explore possibilities for reintegration of displaced workers in their economic activities;
Change #4 Substance
Adds a consideration that stronger industrial policy, a more robust economy, and reduced strategic dependencies are essential to safeguard European industrial employment.
8.9. Emphasizes that the qualifications and skills of the laid-off workers remain key to a future-proof European economy; considers therefore that the mobilisation of the EGF needs to be embedded in a larger policy response on all political levels to ensure that the workers affected find adequate opportunities in line with their qualifications and skills; recalls further that the EGF is an instrument of solidarity and just transition and that the Union’s primary task must be to prevent such closures in the first place; considers that, while the EGF provides necessary support to affected workers, a stronger industrial policy, a more robust, sustainable and resilient economy, and the diminution of strategic dependencies are essential to safeguard the European industrial employment base;
Change #5 Substance
Adds stresses that evaluations should be based on clear objectives and measurable results, and underlines the need to explore sustainability of the EGF in the next Multiannual Financial Framework.
10.11. Calls for thorough final evaluations of the measures implemented, including clear information on how the funds have been used and whether they were spent in line with the approved plans; stresses that such evaluations should be based on clearly defined objectives and measurable results, allowing an assessment of the outcomes delivered for the workers concerned; underlines the importance of ensuring faster and more effective interventions and recalls, in this context, the need to explore ways to ensure the sustainability of the EGF, or its successor programme, in the framework of the next Multiannual Financial Framework 2028–2034;