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Activities of Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS-CASSIOTOU related to 2008/2062(INI)

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Amendments (3)

Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
M. whereas the European Court of Justice has clearly established the doctrine that Article 71 of the EC Treaty offers a sufficient legal basis for applying the directive to self-employed workers, precisely because it contributes to the objectives of road safety and the approximation of conditions of competition,deleted
2008/06/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to give priority totake account of the social dimension of road safety and the health and safety of drivers ahead ofin connection with all other considerations, when drawing up its official impact assessment;
2008/06/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, when drawing up its official impact assessment, to take into accountexplore the general view within the transport sector that self-employed drivers should be included and the fact that it would be extremely difficult from a legal point of view to identify and pursue ‘bogus’ self-employed workers, not to mention the practical and bureaucratic difficulties that would have to be overcome to prevent this concept from being widely exploited to evade the restrictions on working daysand those who only claim that status formally should be included;
2008/06/05
Committee: EMPL