Trasportounito, inadmissible the German unilateral procedures on the minimal salary of the drivers



Trasportounito has denounced that Germany with an unilateral procedure, dissatisfies to all the European norms, is imposing to the European and international enterprises of road haulage it obligation of a "salary minimum wages of leading", pain the prohibition to operate on German territory. "In the facts - the general secretary of the association has explained, Maurizio Longo - Germany places in being measures of pure protectionism of the national enterprises: the excessive rigidity of the German regulation limits and conditions the carried out activities of road haulage from the not German European enterprises. And it is not to case that already 14 European Countries have already contested the German norm. It would be time - it has found Longo - that also Italy moved in this direction".

Trasportounito has specified that, "besides the heaviest pecuniary endorsements (until 30 thousand euros in case of lacked or not truthful communication to the German authority, and until 500 thousand euros in case of corresponsione of the inferior minimal salary to 8,5 euros the hour), Germany imposes the obligation of communication of the beginning, the duration and the end of the transport, let alone that, always at the expense of the foreign enterprise, to conserve such documents in order at least two years. All - he has emphasized the association - rigidly in German language, from the documentation to the attestations, from the fiscal certifications, to the responsibilities that obviously the outsourcers unload inexorably on the road haulage enterprise".

"Although he is condivisibile the second principle which is necessary to contrast the actions of dumping goods in foreign market (Italy is by now prey of enterprises of the east that travel under cost) - Longo has asserted - are not comprised as never the instrument is not used of which the Electronic Registry has been equipped to the European Union and that is National (RENSENEB), that it would have to be available of all the Countries members, in order to identify, to communicate and to endorse the road haulage enterprises that behave in way not corrected. All the German system is not other that an instrumental invention in order to favor the national enterprises. But the moment has come to make to understand to Germany that it is not Europe".

"Until today Italy to governmental level - it has concluded Longo - a guilty distraction regarding these topics has shone for its absence evidencing. It is instead necessary to ask with urgency the "suspension for the German provision" or, in alternative, the application of the reciprocity principle".