In spite of the fact that MEPs from the Committee on Employment adopted some amendments introducing significant changes to the recast EWC (see our dispatch No. 080915), the French presidency and the Council of Ministers of the EU are determined to permanently adopt the text on December 16 and 17. The last pitfall is the definition MEPs introduced concerning transnational issues which provides that, in some cases, a decision concerning a single Member State can fall under the EWC’s sphere of competence. (Ref. 080956)
The parties involved
in this recast (European Commission, French presidency, European Parliament, Council
of Ministers and European social partners) did not take long to meet after the
vote of the report of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment (see
our dispatch No.
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