Monti II Regulation

COM(2012) 130 is a proposal for a Council Regulation ’on the exercise of the right to take collective action within the context of the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services’. If adopted, the Regulation will lay down ’the general principles and rules applicable at Union level with respect to the exercise of the fundamental right to take collective action within the context of the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services.’ It will not affect ’the right or freedom to strike or to take other action covered by the specific industrial relations systems in Member States’. The proposal aims to clarify EU-level principles and rules concerning the right to take collective action. Its scope includes the temporary posting of workers to another Member State, and restructuring and/or relocation involving more than one Member State. It is being referred to as the ’Monti II Regulation’ – the original ’Monti Regulation’ being Council Regulation (EC) 2679/98 ’on the functioning of the internal market in relation to the free movement of goods among the Member States’. An associated proposal for an ’Enforcement Directive’ (not yet available on EUR-Lex) seeks to increase the protection of workers temporarily posted abroad by improving monitoring of, and compliance with, Directive 96/71/EC on the posting of workers.

Proposal text

(Added 2012-04-02)