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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in April 2000 the Commission presented a report on progress in the implementation of the 1994 directive on the institution of a European works council for Community-scale companies. The report has a relatively positive outlook, for today more than a third of the companies affected have implemented these works councils, yet it must be said that recent history surrounding certain redundancy programmes have made this process of informing and possible consultation more necessary than ever.
New draft directives have therefore been added to the 1994 text subject of this report. With regard to these drafts, I think that three different courses of action should be taken.
Firstly, the inclusion of measures so that, within a reasonable time, the majority of companies involved would have a European works council. From this point of view, the idea of lowering thresholds of employee numbers above which companies are affected does not seem very reasonable. We should in all cases honour the 1994 Directive. The second course of action should consist of proposing a global text that is a combination of different texts, rather than a stack of directives. The third measure should be to guarantee that autonomy and freedom in company management are preserved from the time when these companies can completely fulfil their duty to inform and consult.
The report by Mr Menrad, while I appreciate the work contained therein, has not been able to avoid certain pitfalls. It must be said that codetermination, a management technique favoured in Germany but in that country alone, has led him to accept socialist amendments from our fellow Member Mr Harlem Désir, amendments that our group had, upon my initiative, rejected in the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy. I am thinking most notably of the thresholds above which companies are involved and the institution of part vetoes using sanctions in certain cases, which I truly regret.
Regarding the Socialist Members, it must be said that they demonstrate a degree of stubbornness when they reject, for example with the postal or energy services, the Commission’s proposals with the view that what already exists should be applied, or vice-versa, as is the case here, to rely upon the widely perceived lengthy nature of proceedings to jump the lights when it suits them.
In my opinion, competition, the opening up of markets and the creation of an internal market go hand in hand with informing and consulting employees. This is the reason why, with sadness but with certainty, I am going to abstain, if paragraphs 4 and 14 in particular are adopted as they stand."@en1
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