After months of dead calm, negotiations on Regulation 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems are about to resume on 30 September, following a “positive” exchange between national delegations in the EU Council’s “social issues” working group on Monday 21 September.
The group meeting was devoted to the European Commission’s note on the digital solution to unblock negotiations with the European Parliament on prior notification before the posting of a worker (see EUROPE 12560/25). Although some questions remained open for some delegations (still linked to the procedure’s administrative burden), the majority of Member States agreed with the position presented by the European Commission, opening the door to the resumption of negotiations with Parliament.
Negotiations have been in limbo since December 2019 (see EUROPE 12387/18), with Parliament and the EU Council stumbling over the framework for derogations from prior notification before the posting of a worker.
Two other major points remain to be negotiated, namely the abolition of the concept of working time in the case of pluriactivity and the export of social benefits for frontier workers (see EUROPE 12382/14). (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)