Spain is next to a modification of the norms on the harbour job



Yesterday the Spanish minister to the economic Development, Íñigo de Serna Hernáiz, than guides the ministry since last November, he has met with the representatives of the enterprises and of the unions in order to introduce the reform of the law on the ports that would be put into effect through I decree legislative that specifically he is elaborated in order to conform the national legislation to the norms of the European Union in matter of harbour job. To end a 2014, in fact, sentence of the Law court of the EU had established that the Spanish law was not in compliance with the European norms in matter and less than a year it makes the EU commission has decided to newly submit Spain to the institution that has the task of the jurisdictional protection of the EU as still defaulting.

The denunciation of the EU commission is based on the fact that Spain, obligating the terminalisti that operate in the Spanish ports to participate to a Sociedad Anónima de Gestión de Estibadores Portuarios (Sagep) and in any case not allowing they to address at the market in order to assume own staff, is permanent is temporary, unless the workers proposed from the Sagep are not suitable or are insufficient, has come mena to the obligations according to article 49 of the Treaty on the operation of relative the European Union to the plant freedom.

The proposal of modification of the law on the ports introduced from the minister, that it will have to be adopted in the next weeks if Spain intends to avoid to incur in endorsements that will release from the next April, previews essentially the revocation of the obligation for the enterprises to participate to the Sagep, the liquidation of this last or their transformation in offices for the job let alone the abolition of the registry of the harbour workers to which today 6,156 workers are enrolled.

The current text of I decree legislative previews that such transformation happens in the course of a period of transition three-year-old in which the terminalisti they would be obliged to maintain in the first year 75% of the level of occupation of the harbour ones of the Sagep, in according to 50% and 25% in the third year.

In the course of the encounter it is specified that the scope of the reform, as well as to answer to the pressing demand for adaptation of the national norms by the EU, is also to reduce the costs of labor that currently represent the 55-56% of the costs totals of handling of the goods in the Spanish ports.