To be permanently adopted during the next Council of EU Social Ministers, the recast of the EWC directive they adopt has to be similar to that voted by the Plenary Assembly of the European Parliament on December 15. Yet, the report adopted on November 19 by MEPs from the Committee on Employment (see our dispatch No. 080915) widened the gap between the two versions rather than bringing them closer to one another. A trialogue – a process which gathers the EU presidency representing the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament and the Commission – was thus required to come up with a compromise bringing the co-legislators’ views closer. This trialogue led to a joint text which every institution should adopt because it is a synthesis effort – MEPs managed to include some of their amendments – which, moreover, is sponsored by the social partners.
EU: Parliament and Council reach a compromise on the recast of the EWC directive
Representatives from the European Parliament, the Commission and the French presidency reached an agreement on a compromise on the recast of the EWC directive. The text, which notably settles the problem of the definition of transnational issues, should be adopted, if everything goes as expected, on December 15 by MEPs and then permanently by the Council of EU Ministers on December 16 and 17. (Ref. 080979)
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