Will We Succeed in Implementing the Mobility Package in Practice?

Few initiatives of the European Commission have caused so much emotion as did the mobility package. The European Commission proposal from 31st May focuses on several areas that caused troubles in the recent months not only to Czech carriers. These include, in particular, the issue of the posting of the road transport workers.

Representatives of the European institutions, business organizations, carriers’ associations and the general public discussed the social aspects in the field of road transport and the new rules proposed by the mobility package in the European House in Prague on 16th June. Nevertheless the package is a great disappointment for the MEP Martina Dlabajová (ALDE / ANO 2011), the shadow rapporteur for the report on the revised posting directive. She also pointed out that the new rules on posting would increase the administrative burden on businesses. Moreover, she cannot imagine how the new rules will work in practice.

Vladimír Starosta, President of ČESMAD BOHEMIA z.s., welcomes the Commission’s efforts to restrict the functioning of letter-box companies that have long disturbed the European market. However, there are many pitfalls in the European Commission’s which will be difficult to implement in the practice.

“Whether it is the obligation to pay the posted workers the minimum wage of the state in which they are moving or the duty to spend rest time outside the truck cabin, I am afraid that for many companies the new rules will be liquidating,” Starosta pointed out. According to him, the package breaks the principles of a single market and supports the creation of a multi-speed Europe.