Brussels, 20/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - Just four member states have notified the European Commission that they have fully transposed into their national legislations the directive of 2014 on worker secondment, even though the deadline for them to do this was Saturday 18 June.
The 2014 directive is described as an “implementing” directive, as it aims to reinforce the tools available to the member states to enforce the European rules on the secondment of workers laid down in the 1996 directive. The 2014 directive, whose coming into being was not an easy one (see EUROPE 11029), aims to fight fraud, abuse and loopholes in the rules more effectively, with new and tightened-up instruments, and to promote the exchange of information between national authorities.
When approached by EUROPE for comment, the Commission said on Monday 20 June that seven member states had notified it that they had transposed the directive by the deadline of 18 June. These are Slovakia, Malta, Austria, Poland, France, Latvia and Sweden. Of this group of countries, only the first four have transposed it in full.
The member states' apparent lack of enthusiasm must be taken within a specific context, as the base directive, the 1996 document, is currently the subject of a lively debate, with the Commission's proposal for a partial revision of it (see EUROPE 11574). The group of member states which oppose this the most have furthermore frequently stressed that the Commission had been in too much of a hurry to table this proposed revision, whereas they feel that it would have been better to await the effects brought about by the implementation of the 2014 directive. (Original version in French by Jan Kordys)