In 2005 the European Commission put forward the idea of implementing an optional legal framework in order to promote and achieve more TCAs, before finally leaving the issue aside., In a bid to relaunch and accelerate the issue, the ETUC has put a practical instrument together destined for the European legislators. With it, if the signatories decide to work within the framework then the resulting TCA would have the same status as a company agreement in each of the countries to which it applies.
The new ETUC management has clearly placed the restoration of collective negotiation at the heart of its priorities, and this includes transnational negotiations, or in other words, European and Global framework agreements. In the face of European level negotiations that increasingly focus on very specific issues that are oftentimes linked with business transformations, and in offering a means of going beyond the limits of national level negotiations, the ETUC is looking for TCAs to become more efficient, and for this to happen, the organization purports, a legal framework encompassing this level of negotiation is required.
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