Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-01-17-Speech-4-081"
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"en.20020117.5.4-081"2
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"In every industry which is not tied to one location, some employers try to get people from other states to do the work for low wages. This could mean that the financial administration is contracted out to India, that supermarkets have clothes made in the Philippines or that lorries are driven in western Europe using Bulgarian or Lithuanian drivers. Free competition provides companies that pursue the lowest possible costs and the highest possible profits with major advantages. They take away other companies’ market shares, even if this is at the expense of employment, the environment or animal welfare. As long as the authorities do not act against this, the worst companies retain the best chances of survival. In freight transport, this means that freight companies will use Eastern European drivers outside of their own Member State, and thereby avoid paying tax. Both the remuneration and the working conditions are unacceptable. We have had to wait for too long for the introduction of a driver’s attestation showing the driving licence number and social security number of the person concerned. I accept the fact that this will first apply to lorry drivers from outside the EU, but from 2004 their areas of origin might well form part of the EU. An effective control system will require the attestation then also to be introduced for lorry drivers who are based in the EU."@en1
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