02/03/2009: Following the latest evolutions in the road transport sector, the European Commission has presented a proposal amending Directive 2002/15/EC on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities, commonly known as the 'Road Transport Directive', excluding the category of self-employed performing mobile road transport activities. According to the study presented by the Commission, an inclusion of the self-employed performing mobile road activities could result in discrimination towards other categories of self-employed persons.
Road safety, driving time and rest time, are elements already synchronised by Regulation 651/2006 which applies to both employees and the self-employed.
During the Employment and Social Affairs meeting, the Socialist Group rejected the Commission's proposition and introduced the category of the self-employed within the scope of the Road Transport Directive. This will lead to a limitation of the liberty of entrepreneurship in EU countries and to a tendency to further regulate the category of the self-employed in other professional fields.
The final decision on this dossier will probably be taken at the plenary session in May.
"Some political groups keep putting forward past arguments, absolutely null and void nowadays. Those groups do not wish to support the liberty of entrepreneurship. Moreover, they do not wish to guarantee to workers that they will never be in a situation of false self-employment. To this end, the Commission proposal established criteria proving a dependant relation between the so-called self-employed and the employer", declared Marie Panayotopoulos - Cassiotou MEP.
For further information: Tel: +32-2-2847447, Fax: +32-2-2849447
E-mail: marie.panayotopoulos-cassiotou@europarl.europa.eu
Road safety, driving time and rest time, are elements already synchronised by Regulation 651/2006 which applies to both employees and the self-employed.
During the Employment and Social Affairs meeting, the Socialist Group rejected the Commission's proposition and introduced the category of the self-employed within the scope of the Road Transport Directive. This will lead to a limitation of the liberty of entrepreneurship in EU countries and to a tendency to further regulate the category of the self-employed in other professional fields.
The final decision on this dossier will probably be taken at the plenary session in May.
"Some political groups keep putting forward past arguments, absolutely null and void nowadays. Those groups do not wish to support the liberty of entrepreneurship. Moreover, they do not wish to guarantee to workers that they will never be in a situation of false self-employment. To this end, the Commission proposal established criteria proving a dependant relation between the so-called self-employed and the employer", declared Marie Panayotopoulos - Cassiotou MEP.
For further information: Tel: +32-2-2847447, Fax: +32-2-2849447
E-mail: marie.panayotopoulos-cassiotou@europarl.europa.eu
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