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"Mr President, I should like to thank Mrs Schroedter for her report. I am sorry to have to say, however, that unfortunately the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs did not take account of what I believe were the main findings which were voted through in my opinion on behalf of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection. In addition to this, in Group B, we had no opportunity to exchange information on important issues or to discuss them.
In her report, the rapporteur included many worrying and often contradictory elements. Today, I shall focus on the most significant problems. They are not new problems, and had already been widely discussed during work on the Services Directive. Regrettably, it was decided that the solutions to these problems would not be contained in the Directive, only in the Commission’s Guidance on the Posting of Workers. I believe these guidelines are useful, because they deal with the problems thousands of entrepreneurs encounter daily as they post their workers.
One of these problems is the requirement imposed by the host country to set up legal representation, instead of simply posting a worker who could act as the employer’s representative. This requirement has far-reaching implications, because setting up legal representation falls under the principle of freedom to establish an enterprise, and not that of freedom to provide services. In addition, it represents a considerable financial outlay for employers.
The fact that the host country requires the provision of various quantities of documents is also a problem. In practice, entrepreneurs complain that the host country’s authorities abuse this requirement, insisting on documents that are not relevant to the work undertaken.
The requirement pertaining to the supply of information declarations on the posting of workers represents yet another problem. Some countries insist on receiving this information many months before the start of the posting period, and it is often the case that these declarations are treated as authorisations. Such practices are very burdensome for the service providers.
The final important issue I should like to draw attention to, and which is often highlighted by entrepreneurs, is the very strict control of Polish enterprises …"@en1
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