The aim of the EGF shall be to contribute to smart, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and to promote sustainable employment in the Union by enabling the Union to demonstrate solidarity towards, and to support workers made redundant and self-employed persons whose activity has ceased as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns due to globalisation, as a result of a continuation of the global financial and economic crisis addressed in Regulation (EC) No 546/2009, or as a result of a new global financial and economic crisis.
Is é is aidhm do CED rannchuidiú le fás eacnamaíoch cliste, cuimsitheach agus inbhuanaithe agus chun fostaíocht inbhuanaithe san Aontas a chur chun cinn trína chumasú don Aontas dlúthpháirtíocht a léiriú i leith oibrithe a rinneadh iomarcach agus i leith daoine féinfhostaithe a bhfuil deireadh tagtha lena ngníomhaíocht i ngeall ar mhórathruithe struchtúracha ar phatrúin na trádála domhanda de thoradh an domhandaithe nó i ngeall ar leanúint den ghéarchéim dhomhanda airgeadais agus eacnamaíoch a dtugtar aghaidh uirthi i Rialachán (AE) Uimh. 546/2009 nó i ngeall ar ghéarchéim dhomhanda airgeadais agus eacnamaíochta nua, agus tacú leis na hoibrithe sin.