Minutes of the last “infringements” meeting of the European Commission

July 4, 200722th May 2021 Nicolas Gros Verheyde

(B2) At its meeting on June 27, the European Commission decided to prosecute a series of social offences.

The European Commission has thus referred to the European Court of Justice on :

- equal treatment between men and women in social security schemes, directives 86/378 and 96/97 (Czech Rep.);

- worker safety with regard to asbestos, directive 2003/18 (Luxembourg + reasoned opinion for Estonia);

- parental leave, non-compliant transposition of Directive 96/34 (Greece);

- discrimination on retirement age for civil servants (Greece);

- the nationality requirement for captains and chefs of vessels flying the national flag (Czech Republic, Spain, Italy + reasoned opinion for Belgium);

- discrimination based on nationality (Portugal "without delay");

- posting of workers (Belgium) ;

- racism and equal treatment, Directive 2000/43 (14 Member States: Spain, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia).

She also sent several reasoned opinions for:

- the status of the European cooperative, non-compliance with Directive 2003/72 (Belgium, Greece, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal);

- discrimination on free time for children among civil servants (Greece);

- equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes (Finland);

- the refusal to take into account the period spent abroad in certain jobs (France);

- discrimination in access to employment in the public service based on nationality (Luxembourg);

- freedom of movement of workers (Malta).

A notice was sent to:

- organization of working time, directive 1993/104 (Greece)

- the working time of aircrew, non-compliance with the 2000/79 directive (Spain) or its non-transposition (Austria)

- equal treatment in terms of employment and work, non-compliance with Directive 2000/79 (United Kingdom) or its incorrect transposition (Sweden);

- equality between men and women, incorrect transposition of Directive 2002/73 (Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia);

- non-compliance with Community law on the free movement of workers (Portugal)

- the statutes of the Luxembourg football federation, clauses contrary to Article 39 of the Treaty, following the Bosman judgment (Luxembourg);

- the calculation of the amount of the retirement pension (France);

- the non-revision of the retirement pension rate, following the Griesmar judgment - equality between men and women - and sexist discrimination (France).

(NGV)