EU: main provisions of the future EWC directive

Keeping existing agreements. The new directive doesn’t call into question the existing agreement and doesn’t impose to renegotiate them. Anticipation agreements (article 13, concluded before September 22, 1996) still avoid the directive. Likewise, agreements concluded under article 6 do not necessarily have to be renegotiated and may derogate from the new provisions of the directive if they are revised within two years after its implementation. New agreements derogating from the new provisions of the directive may also be signed during the same period.
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commentary, we are recollecting the main novelties of this directive in this dispatch. (Ref. 081026)

The text agreed to by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers (see our dispatch No. 081006) still needs final linguistic touches (translation into all EU languages) before formal adoption and enforcement after publication in the Official Journal of the EU. Then, the national legal orders will have two years to transpose it.

General principles on informing and consulting workers. The

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