Lawyer of the Paris Bar, working with the Brussels Bar in association with the Lallemand and Legros law firm (Brussels), Stéphane Rodrigues comments for e-europnews the amended proposal of the Directive on "Services" which was presented by the European Commission (also cf. Ref. 06150). (Ref. 06339).
Evelyne Gebhardt reacted to the amended proposal by mentioning it as a victory for social Europe. Do you agree with this statement?
This opinion can be shared for two reasons :
- on the one hand, it is now established for the European Commission that the labour law is excluded from the directive. In the first article relative to its object, the directive clearly stated that the labour law is not concerned like all legislative or contractual provisions – the collective agreements relating to the working conditions, including health and safety at work and the relations between employers and employees. The provision is broad enough to encompass all the issues governed by the labour law.
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