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I voted against the resolution on working conditions of mobile workers assigned to interoperable cross-border services. This resolution welcomes a Council Directive that turns an agreement between social partners into legislation. This agreement between the Community of European Railways (industry) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (trade unions) is surplus to requirements as we already have a Working Time Directive (2003/88) that does a fine job of incorporating mobile workers in its remit. Moreover, the CER only represents the railway companies that have national monopolies in the Member States. The European Rail Freight Association, which represents smaller companies, was not recognised by the Commission as social partner, while the new Directive places impossible demands on these small railway companies. For example, there is the requirement that a mobile worker must, after one night away from home, spend the next night at home at all costs. That is over-regulation in itself, but also a barrier to new operators in the market that actually offer cross-border freight transport. In short, the EU cannot use this directive if it wants to make a modal shift from transport by road to transport by rail and if it wants to make the EU more competitive in the framework of the Lisbon strategy. That is why I have voted against."@en1
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