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 towards better working conditions and fair competition. As the trade union representing drivers in Denmark, we agree with the Commission, and a number of important stakeholders in the transport sector, that the rules for posted workers must be adapted to fit the highly mobile and cross-border nature of international transport whilst maintaining the aim of ensuring clear, fair and enforceable rules. In this context 3F Transport proposes a new approach to bridging the posting of workers directive to the transport sector. 3F Transport believes that this proposal accommodates the various concerns and needs that have been voiced in the debate since May 2017. The proposal targets international transport. But it cannot stand alone. Clear and balanced rules for international drivers must be backed by rules on driving time and rest periods, tachographs, cabotage and combined transports, which all facilitate better enforcement in the Member States not least digitally. Yours sincerely, Jan Villadsen, President of 3F Transport 2 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