RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on minimum requirements for enhancing worker mobility between Member States by improving the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension rights

on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on minimum requirements for enhancing worker mobility between Member States by improving the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension rights

(17612/1/2013 – C7-0059/2014 – 2005/0214(COD))

(Ordinary legislative procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

–       having regard to the Council position at first reading (17612/1/2013 – C7‑0059/2014),

–       having regard to its position at first reading[1] on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2005)0507),

–       having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(2007)0603),

–       having regard to Article 294(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

–       having regard to Rule 72 of its Rules of Procedure,

–       having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (A7-0188/2014),

1.      Approves the Council position at first reading;

2.      Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the Council position;

3.      Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council, in accordance with Article 297(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;

4.      Instructs its Secretary-General to sign the act, once it has been verified that all the procedures have been duly completed, and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of the Council, to arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

5.      Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

• [1]  OJ C 146E, 12.6.2008, p. 216.

As a result of negotiations between the EP and the Council, with the participation of the Commission, this proposal guarantees legal certainty about supplementary pension rights in case of cross-border labour mobility. The rapporteur, therefore, recommends its approval without amendments.