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"Madam President, I do not know whether this afternoon was the first time that you have been in the chair, presiding over Parliament. If it is, congratulations. I should also like to congratulate the rapporteur on his exceptionally good report and sound preparations for this dossier. I fear that in the current climate, the report is indeed very topical and that this will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future. All the more reason for ensuring that we protect those employees who are faced with bankruptcy and suspension of payment. That is the rationale underlying the preparations for this report.
I am also pleased that we in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs have reached overwhelming agreement. There are a few loose ends that need tying up, a few points on which we do not yet see eye to eye completely. A moment ago, I heard Mr Pronk say that it is indeed possible that there are still a number of misunderstandings concerning amendments. I am thinking in particular of the point he made, namely the fact that on the one hand, we also want a number of self-employed, notably self-employed who are very much like employees, to fall within the scope of the regulation, but on the other hand, this should not open the floodgates to mutual aid between employers and service providers who would be able to use those funds. We are agreed on the intention. We should use the time we now have until the actual vote to consider whether those misunderstandings can be removed and whether this joint intention can be expressed in a compromise amendment.
In my view, the point about the self-employed is a very important one, particularly in this dossier. However, it also crops up in a number of other dossiers. That is why I should like to draw the Commissioner’s attention to this point and ask him whether the Commission could show some more initiative both on this matter and on the matter of defining which categories should in fact be comparable with employees. This is not only of paramount importance for the issue of insolvency, of course, but also for a lot of other aspects of employment protection and labour law. Those definitions in European law are still left for the Member States to deal with. We have noticed that there are rather considerable discrepancies between them. As cross-border employment increases, and this will become ever more popular in the European Union, it will mean that we will be increasingly faced with different definitions and different groups which will cause disruption to labour market relations. Enlargement in particular is a huge cause for concern, as we have already witnessed in the past and are witnessing at the moment in the EU’s border regions. I should therefore like to ask the Commissioner what initiatives she intends to take on this score and urge her to adopt a pro-active stance on this."@en1
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