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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in its June 2007 communication entitled ‘Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services: Maximising its benefits and potential while guaranteeing the protection of workers’, the Commission highlighted some shortcomings in the implementation and cross-border enforcement of the Posting of Workers Directive.
The Commission is fully committed to ensuring effective protection of workers’ rights and will continue to combat all forms of social dumping and infringements of workers’ rights.
It should be stressed that there is no conflict between consistent support for workers’ rights and support for a competitive internal market, which gives us the means to preserve Europe’s social well-being. If our society and our economy are to continue to flourish, we have to give equal priority to social aspects and to competitiveness.
At that time we came to the conclusion that these problems could be solved only if the Member States stepped up their mutual cooperation and, in particular, if they discharged their obligations concerning administrative cooperation and accessibility of information, as stipulated in the Directive.
Correct and effective implementation and enforcement are the key elements in the protection of the rights of posted workers, while insufficient enforcement weakens the effectiveness of the Community Directives in force in this area.
Consequently, on 3 April this year the Commission adopted a Recommendation on better cooperation in order to remedy the shortcomings in the implementation, application and enforcement of the existing Directive. The Recommendation focuses in particular on better exchange of information, improving access to information and exchange of best practices.
Better administrative cooperation should therefore lead to greater protection of working conditions in practice, lower administrative burdens for companies, more effective monitoring of the discharge of existing obligations to observe working conditions, and provision of effective controls.
The Recommendation also proposes the creation of a High-Level Committee that should directly involve the social partners, who are closest to the problems on the ground, and lay the basis for closer cooperation between labour inspectorates. This Committee could be the appropriate forum to discuss a wide range of issues stemming from the implementation of the Posting of Workers Directive.
The Commission is convinced that this Recommendation lays the basis for a more intensive fight against infringements of workers’ rights and undeclared work, and that it improves working conditions for migrant workers throughout the European Union.
It is up to the Member States now to take the necessary steps to improve the implementation of the Posting of Workers Directive. The Recommendation is expected to be approved by the next Employment and Social Affairs Council on 9 June.
The Commission then intends to evaluate the implementation of the Directive in the light of the latest European Court of Justice decisions, while cooperating closely with the European Parliament on the preparation of its own-initiative report."@en1
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