European Council agrees on explicit EU-wide criteria defining platform work
After more than a year of intense negotiations, the Council endorsed yesterday a general approach to the Platform Workers Directive, limiting what constitutes a “digital labour platform” in a welcome effort to clarify the relevant definition and criteria. But it has failed to explicitly exclude taxi dispatch centres from the directive’s scope.
EU intelligent systems deal backs safe, efficient and green mobility
IRU welcomes the provisional agreement reached last week to increase the deployment of intelligent transport systems (ITS) on European roads. EU Member States must now include road transport data on their National Access Points by the end of 2025.