Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-13-Speech-3-254"
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"Mr President, Mr Skinner, Commissioner, it gives me great pleasure to be able to discuss this topic. One of the Dutch newspapers this morning carried the headline, ‘Europe safeguards the window cleaner’s bread and butter’. That was a reference to the concern that it would no longer be possible to use a ladder for work. This directive has finally provided a solution. It means that a ladder can be used for work, provided the work is short-term and it poses a limited risk. That is precisely where the whole problem lies. This news is music to the ears of people in the Netherlands, at least the window cleaners, along with an entire professional sector of self-employed who carry ladders around in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe, such as maintenance people, painters and decorators, and so forth. But they are all getting excited about nothing. For the time being, anyway. For it may well be that, at national level, the measure will at some point be interpreted to mean that ‘short-term’ is not a full working day, in which case the work can, strictly speaking, not be carried out. I am only highlighting this issue. We have not solved the problem. The directive causes problems of enforceability. If we concern ourselves with working conditions in this House, we should do this effectively, and our efforts must be geared towards the relevant categories of people: employees, self-employed with no staff, self-employed with staff, etc. There is room for more clarity in this respect."@en1
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