1. European Parliament – Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Hearing on the EGF 2014-2020 1 March 2012 - The German Perspective - Wolfgang Husemann Director of the Group „European Funds for Employment“ Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

2. EGF Hearing German EGF-Projects Completed CasesBENQ (2007) NOKIA (2/2009) Karmann (8/2009) Heidelberger Druck (2010) Total / Average Participants25281305174011456718 Re-Employed, Entrepreneurs 19773856368883886 Re-Employ- ment Rate 78.2 %29.5 %36.6 %77.6 %57.8 % Unemployed4637379211172238 Unemploy- ment Rate 18.3 %56.5 %52.9 %10.2 %33.3 %

3. EGF Hearing EGF Implementation in Germany Characteristics: Comprehensive national restructuring framework Early intervention Harmonisation of national, ESF and EGF measures Involvement of experienced actors and partners

4. EGF Hearing Conclusions on the status quo EGF may help under certain circumstances… … but those are often not given. Weaknesses: National restructuring frameworks, actors Implementation structures have to be built up for an uncertain (small) number of cases Approval Procedure is time-consuming and cumbersome

5. EGF Hearing The Proposal for an EGF 2014-2020 EGF Performance up to now unconvincing Weaknesses are not tackled (no budget line) Proposal entails new problems Inclusion of self-employed, owner-managers of SME Allocation of funds towards the agricultural sector Different rules for workers and farmers New Crisis criteria, inclusion of temp agency workers Commission decision on co-funding rate

6. EGF Hearing Thank you very much for your attention!