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European Parliament: Working time directive in road transport also rejected in the plenum

Even now, many HGV and bus drivers are groaning under their workload. Many of them are so-called pseudo self-employed, which means that they are officially registered as self-employed drivers, whereby they in reality drive for a company, from which they in some cases even have leased the lorry they are ...

17-06-2010 | Transport & Environment

European Parliament: Transport Commissioner Kallas presents his work programme

The Estonian EU Commissioner Siim Kallas announced before the Members of the Transport Committee ...
04-06-2010 | Transport & Environment

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Working time in mobile road transport - Harmonisation at any cost?

Should the self-employed be exempt from the Road Transport (Working Time) Directive? Europe’s Labour representatives are up in arms about this: they fear that self-employed drivers might work in excess of 80 hours and could therefore pose a risk to road safety. They are also concerned that this might ...

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AK position paper: Yes to binding sustainability chapter! New codecision competence of the European Parliament for Trade Policy should be actively used for social and environmental standards!

The coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty does significantly upgrade the role of the European Parliament (EP) in Trade Policy. This concerns both the information rights of the EP and its codecision competence. Hence, the Parliament will in future play a significant role in international relationships, provided these have a trade policy component. Thus, the political groups of the EP are getting the opportunity of raising their profile and to demand that labour and environmental minimum standards become the touchstone in the planned chapters on Sustainable Development for concluding trade agreements.

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AK position paper on a sustainable future for transport: Towards an integrated, technology-led and user-friendly system

Based on the present Communication, the European Commission presents its vision for future of transport within the Union. The urgently required basic change of direction does not happen and the Communication of the European Commission is on the whole little innovative. It is to be feared that the present programme will neither be able to fulfil the climate protection targets nor the requirements of the Lisbon Strategy.

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