Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-04-Speech-2-104"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20010904.6.2-104"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-04-Speech-2-1052
lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2002-07-09)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3
lpv:translated text	". Firstly, I would like to remind you that the main objective of Directive 94/45/EC is to eliminate any obstacles to informing, consulting and communicating with employees in Community-scale companies. It is true that this directive has been transposed within the allotted time frame. It is also true that its application has led to the creation of numerous European works councils. Approximately 650 works councils have thus been set up in companies that employ at least 1000 people, with at least 150 of these in two Member States. However, there are still 1 800 companies in the EU that meet the conditions, especially in relation to thresholds over which, according to the Directive’s provisions, a European Works Council should be set up. Furthermore, the recent large-scale restructuring operations and redundancies that have highlighted the gaps in European legislation are still fresh in everyone’s minds. It is unacceptable for employees to find out about decisions affecting their company through the media. We are accountable to European citizens, who are ever more doubtful of the existence of a European social model. This period of industrial change should prompt us to think carefully about how we can improve existing arrangements. It is exactly this that the report from the Parliamentary Committee on Employment and Social Affairs sets out to do, for, on the occasion of this application report, it outlines the direction to be taken by the European Commission when it drafts a proposal for an amendment to the European Works Council Directive (scheduled for 2002). This will be a matter of implementing the following improvements: precise definition of the concepts of information and consultation of workers; a general obligation to call extraordinary meetings of the European Works Council, as quickly as is possible and at an opportune time; the implementation of a consolidated consultation procedure on particular questions, specifically involving workers; the lowering of the threshold relating to the number of employees in companies affected by the directive from 1000 to 500 employees for a whole company and from 150 to 100 per establishment in at least two Member States; the establishment of penalties, at national and European level, to be applied in cases where the Directive is not respected. I would therefore also ask the European Commission to incorporate these suggestions into its proposal for an amendment to the European Works Council Directive."@en1

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