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TTIP and Labour Standards

Estudio 14-06-2016

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will follow EU and US recent trade policy practice to include labour provisions. These could limit the risk that liberalisation results in social dumping and promote upward change. This Policy Department A study concludes that the EU could take a precautionary stance and employ various instruments that increase the chances that TTIP will have positive social consequences. TTIP may combine the strengths of the EU and US approaches to labour ...

The European Small Claims Procedure (ESCP) became operational on 1 January 2009, as a special, EU-wide procedure available both to consumers and traders for pursuing cross-border claims within the Internal Market of a value not exceeding €2 000. During the first five years of its existence, however, the ESCP has been used only rarely. In 2013, the Commission proposed to amend the ESCP Regulation, to raise the ceiling for claims to €10 000, expand the definition of a 'cross-border case', increase ...

The policy note presents the social and employment policy situation in Portugal.

EU jurisdiction rules applicable to civil and commercial cases have recently been recast. However, the EP's Committee on Legal Affairs suggests that further changes could be made in order to enhance employee protection.

This briefing note gives a short overview of the impacts of the Laval-case, the Rüffert-case, the Commission vs. Luxembourg, and the Viking-case on the practice of collective bargaining and the effectiveness of social action in the European Union, with the aim of giving the broadest possible update on the consequences of these important judgments on the social dimension of the Internal Market.