France: the list of trades with labor shortages due to be released

The government should soon announce its list of trades "in tension" to which the nationals of the new EU Member States will have access. During the EU Council of minsiters of last 13 March, the government had announced that it would open in a "progressive and controlled" way the access to the French labour market to Eastern workers. This list, which contains around 50 trades, is a first small step towards this opening. (Ref. 06386)
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To make this list, the government chose to use the various tools used by the National Agency for Employment (ANPE). First of all, the ROME codes (operational Repertory of trades and employment) were used as a basis for its establishment. Out of the 22 professional categories of this nomenclature, less than 10 trades are affected by shortages. Fall under this qualification and are thus likely to be opened to the nationals of the 8 Central and Esatern European countries, the trades whose ration j

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