Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-05-Speech-2-164"
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"The report by Mrs Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou recommends rejecting the Commission’s proposal for amending a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities.
I voted in favour of this report, which seeks to reject a proposal by the European Commission that will not make it possible to remedy the failings identified in the implementation and monitoring of the rules in relation to driving times and rest periods directly linked to safety and social rights. Furthermore, there is no clarification as to the scope of this directive and possible ways of monitoring. In any case, Member States must assume sole responsibility in this area.
Finally, this proposal does not define any better the notion of ‘mobile workers’ or ‘self-employed drivers’, and with good reason, since this is where the real challenge of this directive lies. Should we exclude all self-employed drivers from this directive? The question remains open, because the problem is complex.
Indeed, there exists a widespread practice of drivers working as ‘false’ self-employed drivers, when they are in fact employed by companies which, for reasons of profitability, bypass the rules in relation to driving times and rest periods."@en1
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