2 Amendments of Mary Lou McDONALD related to 2008/2062(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission, when drawing up its official impact assessment, to give properfull consideration to the position expressed by Parliament and its arguments for the full inclusion of self-employed drivers within the scope of the Directive after the transitional period as laid down in Article 2 of the Directive;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CRegrets that the Commission did not make good use of the seven-year transitional period beginning in 2002 to put forward proposals and suggest best practices as to how to bring self-employed drivers within the scope of the Directive by 2009, with the consequence that problems and conflicts (such as losses of earnings) will be borne by drivers, and that it even uses it s own inactivity as an argument for postponing the inclusion of self-employed drivers within the scope of the Directive; furthermore, regrets the shift from a social to an economic outlook and calls on the Commission to submit the relevant measures sufficiently well in advance to ensure that the directive as a whole, including all its elements, can enter fully into force on 23 March 2009 and that its scope is extended to include self- employed workers;