EU: MEPs ask the Commission to ensure the application of the directive on truck drivers’ working time by the Member States

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In a draft resolution adopted on Tuesday, September 9, the MEPs from the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament are concerned about the delay Member States took in the transposition of social legislation relating to road transport. They are also asking that this directive be extended to include self-employed workers. (Ref. 080701)
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Badly transposed directive. Over two years after the deadline established for its transposition, MEPs observed with anxiety that the directive on “organization of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities” is only partially applied in the EU27.

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