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Aim: To eliminate the most
pressing incentives to establish
and make use of so-called letter
box companies
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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.
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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
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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
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