03/02/25 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 6 February, the co-legislators of the EU Council and the European Parliament will begin negotiations on the revision of the European Works Council (EWC) directive (see EUROPE 13554/8, 13565/14). According to a draft provisional agenda, the trilogue should begin the main discussions without delay. After the respective presentations of the mandates, the discussions will focus on four aspects of the reform, including an initial discussion on the scope of application, the definition of so-called cross-border issues, gender representation, the threshold for requesting the creation of an EWC and the confidentiality of information, access to justice and sanctions. At this stage, the next trilogue meetings will take place on 19 March and 6 May in Strasbourg. On 20 January, the Member States had expressed very little appetite in the working group for making concessions to the European Parliament. (SP)