3 Aim: To eliminate the most pressing incentives to establish and make use of so-called letter box companies 4 Aim: To eliminate incentives for practices that results in so-called nomad-drivers and to improve the basis for a better work-life balance for drivers Solution: With the principle of next destination, the basis for the current practice of Solution: With the principle of next destina- establishing and using letter-box companies to tion, the incentives for companies established exploit loopholes in existing rules will largely be with the aim to exploit loopholes in existing eliminated. legislation is minimised. By applying the rules of posting of workers to all third country All EU operators can drive freely on the Europe- operations, this proposal targets the improve- an market, and will enjoy the certainty of know- ment of the working conditions for the so-called ing which rules will apply when according to the nomad-drivers, who will be ensured the local principle of same pay for the same work at the conditions of employment in the countries they same place. While there is no clear definition operate in. or count of so-called letter box companies, a report from the Danish employers organisation The issue of nomad-drivers is significant. Accor- ITD, show that in 2013 49 per cent of Eastern ding to a COWI-report from Denmark Byways in European trucks crossing the border in between Danish Transport - COWI, 3F Transport and DTL Denmark and Germany are owned by Danish 2016, 88 per cent of Romanian, Bulgarian and subsidiary companies. Macedonian drivers, driving in Denmark, have been away from their home country in at least 2 weeks and live and sleep in the truck at average for 7 consecutive weeks. They never drive in their country of employment and 77 per cent of them are employed in a company registered in Romania or Bulgaria, from where they also receive instructions. The average pay is below 50 per cent of the normal pay level in Denmark. 11 Fair Mobility Clear and balanced rules for international transport FAIR MOBILITY - CLEAR AND BALANCED RULES FOR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT Clear and more balanced rules for posted workers is needed. Also in the transport sector. The new rules on posted workers and the Mobility Package proposed by the European Commission are important steps in the right direction towar The present proposal smartly targets the types of transport that allow for business models, which can extort the market and provide insecurity regarding the level of remuneration, tax, insurance or the quality of work-life balance for drivers, while exempting simple export-import operations, which d THE PRINCIPLE OF NEXT DESTINATION Third country operations are types of international transport operations, where the driver, employed in country A (the home country of the transport company), conducts an operation from country B to country C. Such drivers are neither working from nor guaranteed to 5 EXEMPTION OF SIMPLE EXPORT-IMPORT OPERATIONS Simple export-import operations are types of international transport operations, that either begin or end in the Member State where the driver is employed. This includes simple operations, where a driver drives goods from country A, the country of employm Simple export-import operations A driver employed by a Hungarian transport company drives a load from Hungary (Budapest) to Sweden (Malmo) through Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark. The driver returns directly from Sweden (Malmo) to Hungary (Budapest) with a new load through Poland a FULL COVERAGE OF OTHER THIRD-COUNTRY OPERATIONS Third country operations are types of international transport operations, where the driver, employed in country A (the home country of the transport company), conducts an operation from country B to country C. Such drivers are neither working from nor Third country operations A driver employed by a Hungarian transport company drives a load from Spain (Madrid) to Sweden (Malmo) where it is unloaded through France, Germany and Denmark. This operation should be carried out as a minimum according to the employment conditions of Sweden. The same drive 4 AIMS OF THE PROPOSAL: 1 Aim: To make rules clear and Today, the price of a transport operation is balanced with a simple and determined ahead, by taking into account the enforceable approach national prices of fuel, national road taxes, national rules and so forth. It is logic to include th 3 Aim: To eliminate the most pressing incentives to establish and make use of so-called letter box companies 4 Aim: To eliminate incentives for practices that results in so-called nomad-drivers and to improve the basis for a better work-life balance for drivers Solution: With the principle of ne Transport W W W . 3 F. D K