The MEPs of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) considerably widened the scope of the European Labour Authority when they voted on the draft regulation establishing the European Labour Authority, on which rapporteur Jeroen Lenaers (EPP, Netherlands) was rapporteur, and which was adopted by a comfortable majority (33 votes in favour, 6 against, 9 abstentions) on Tuesday 20 November.
“The aim of the new authority is therefore a better enforcement of the existing rules,...