Legislation

Following in the footsteps of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the UK will sign up to the European regulations on weekly rest of 45 hours and will ban drivers of commercial vehicles from taking this rest in their lorries. The legislative change, which will come into force as of …

Many EU countries have banned the possibility for drivers to sleep in a cab. They will face high fines, as well as the company they work for, in countries such as France, Belgium and Germany. In Germany, both the carrier and driver are going to be subject to a fine, …

On May 27th in Spain a new regulation concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services has entered into force. This law finally puts Spain among those countries that, such as France, Germany, Italy and Austria, have a regulation concerning this subject. The employer that …

Foreign companies that do international transport or cabotage in Italy will have to report online the displacement of workers with the new Minimum Wage Law. Italy and the transport come to the fore. If last week we read in the press about the first cases of sanctions against Spanish carriers, …

Protectionist policies developing in Europe as laws that impinge on minimum wage of hauliers in transfer, let us to shed light on legislative changes in Italy and France. For this reason we have asked Studio legale Callipari, Golia di Infogestweb and Dr. Sergio Antonaccio of Transport European Studies Centre to …