The European Parliament reportedly unanimously decided, at the rapporteurs’ meeting on Tuesday 10 December, to postpone the interinstitutional meeting on the Regulation on the coordination of social security systems, normally scheduled for Thursday 12 December.
The parliamentarians allegedly considered that the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU had too little flexibility to resume negotiations under the right conditions to make progress.
Indeed, at the end of November, the Presidency of the European Parliament did not obtain a renewed mandate from the ambassadors and representatives to the EU, but only some room for manoeuvre during the negotiations (see EUROPE 12378/17). It would therefore be the mandate of early November (see EUROPE 12364/21) guiding the Presidency, a mandate that has not yet made it possible to reach agreement.
Three main points continue to divide the co-legislators: the question of prior notification in the case of the posting of a worker and the conditions for exemption that would apply; the abolition of the notion of working time in the case of pluriactivity; and, finally, the export of social benefits for frontier workers (see EUROPE 12382/14). (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)