5 Amendments of Mara BIZZOTTO related to 2017/0121(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The balance between enhancingImproved social and working conditions for drivers and facilitating the exercise of the freedom to provide road transport services based on, proper safety standards, the simplification of administrative formalities and an adequate number of checks to ensure fair competition between nationaldomestic and foreign operators is crucial for the smooth functioning ofare of paramount importance to creating a properly functioning road transport sector in the internal market.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Having evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of the cCurrent EUnion social legislation in the road transport, certain loopholes in the existing provisions and deficiencies in their enforcement were identified. Furthermore a number of discrepancies exist between Member States in interpretation, application and implementation of the rules. This creates legal uncertainty and unequal treatment of drivers and opera sector has fostered social dumping, unregulated relocation and, in general, the proliferation of illicit practices causing unfair competition in this sectors, which is detrimental to the working, social and competition conditions in the sectorsuch as, for example, the misuse of cabotage arrangements or letterbox companies.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Any further liberalisation of cabotage, which is likely to further destabilise the road transport sector, with devastating consequences for Italian and European road haulage, should be rejected.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) The difficulties experienced in the road transport sector are not exclusively due to the general economic crisis but have been facilitated by EU social policies and by the rules on posting, which have fostered the exploitation of the staff periodically hired, who, despite living and working in one Member State, are paid in accordance with the lower standards of the country of origin.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
No exception shall be made for cabotage operations, to which the provisions of Directives 96/71/EC and 2014/67/EU shall apply in full;