Translation of "Europäischer betriebsrat" in English

The Directive on the European Works Council provides a transnational legal framework on these matters for enterprises and groups of enterprises operating Community-wide.

The committee shall be responsible for all organisational duties arising within the European Works Council.

Finally, at a time when a European-wide Michelin works committee has just come into being, Community legislation must be amended so that employees, or their representatives, who are concerned at the plans for collective redundancy on economic grounds can take their case to the competent local court, without waiting for the redundancy to be announced, and challenge the grounds for the decision.

The designated body representing workers is nothing more than a special European works council for the European limited liability company, incidentally with better legal powers, something which we should remember when amending the Works Council Directive.

However, there are still 1 800 companies in the EU that meet the conditions, especially in relation to thresholds over which, according to the Directive' s provisions, a European Works Council should be set up.

Whereas, in order to guarantee that the employees of undertakings or groups of undertakings operating in two or more Member States are properly informed and consulted, it is necessary to set up European Works Councils or to create other suitable procedures for the transnational information and consultation of employees;

Article 2(2) contains an identical provision to Article 8(3) of Directive 94/45/EC (European works councils).

To that end, a European Works Council or a procedure for informing and consulting employees shall be established in every Community-scale undertaking and every Community-scale group of undertakings, where requested in the manner laid down in Article 5(1), with the purpose of informing and consulting employees under the terms, in the manner and with the effects laid down in this Directive.

In order to achieve the objective set out in Article 1(1) and in the cases provided for in Article 7(1), the establishment, composition and competence of a European Works Council shall be governed by the following rules:

Articles 6 and 7 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, if a decision has been taken to negotiate an agreement according to Article 6, in which case ‘special negotiating body’ shall be replaced by ‘European Works Council’.

In order to guarantee that the employees of undertakings or groups of undertakings operating in two or more Member States are properly informed and consulted, it is necessary to set up European Works Councils or to create other suitable procedures for the transnational information and consultation of employees.

To that end, a European Works Council or a procedure for informing and consulting employees shall be established in every Community-scale undertaking and every Community-scale group of undertakings, where requested in the manner laid down in Article 5(1), with the purpose of informing and consulting employees.

Without prejudice to the possibility of the parties to decide otherwise, a European Works Council set up in the absence of agreement between the parties must, in order to fulfil the objective of this Directive, be kept informed and consulted on the activities of the undertaking or group of undertakings so that it may assess the possible impact on employees’ interests in at least two different Member States.

Irrespective of whether Renault had properly applied the two relevant Directives (one on European Works Councils, the other on collective redundancies), Mr Santer believed that Renault's action ran counter to the spirit of the two texts.

To this end the Commission carried out further work and on the basis of the progress made by the European Works Council dossier in the Council of Ministers and the representations made by the social partners and drafted a paper on the possible content of the envisaged proposal.

Of course, the proposed Directive is without prejudice to other information and consultation rights, including those pursuant to Directive 94/45/EC (European Works Councils).

In order to guarantee that the employees of undertakings or groups of undertakings operating in two or more Member States are properly informed and consulted, it is necessary to set up European Works Councils or to create other suitable procedures for the transnational information and consultation of employees.

On the European Works Council, the European Economic and Social Committee submitted an exploratory opinion with a view to examine what aspects might need to be revised.

In order to achieve the objective in Article 1(1) of the Directive and in the cases provided for in Article 7(1) of the Directive, the establishment, composition and competence of a European Works Council shall be governed by the following rules:

The European Parliament could play a role by means of amendments but, when you take into account the fact that again and again in Wednesday votes it proves impossible to get enough Members together in the Chamber for the necessary 260 votes for second readings, then — as Mrs Van Dijk said earlier in another connection — things look really bleak for the social dimension in the internal market.

By 22 September 1996 at the latest all European Union coun­tries, with the exception of the UK, will have in place legislation under which it will be possible to set up European works coun­cils in multinational companies.

For example, what alternatives are there to the European works council approach to employee participation in multinationals?

As part of the transition, a European Works Council ("Sixt Europe Leaders Forum") was founded in 2013.

There is a considerable Union acquis in this field: Articles 154 and 155 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and Directives 2002/14/EC (general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community), 98/59/EC (collective redundancies), 2001/23/EC (transfers of undertakings) and 94/45/EC (European works councils).

European Works Council: The Council adopted its common position on the Commission proposal on measures for the information and consultation of workers in European enterprises or groups of enterprises.

The Directive requires Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings to establish a European Works Council (EWC) or a procedure for the purposes of informing and consulting employees.

Articles 6 and 7 of the Directive shall apply, mutatis mutandis, if a decision has been taken to negotiate an agreement according to Article 6 of the Directive, in which case 'special negotiating body' shall be replaced by 'European Works Council'.

Whereas, in order to guarantee that the employees of undertakings or groups of undertakings operating in two or more Member States are properly informed and consulted, a European Works Council must, in principle, be set up;