Article 1, Point (1) · Directive (EU) 2025/2450

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(1)Article 1 is amended as follows:

(a)paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:‘3.Information and consultation of employees must occur at the relevant level of management and representation, according to the subject under discussion. To achieve that, the competence of the European Works Council and the scope of the information and consultation procedure for employees governed by this Directive shall be limited to transnational issues, taking into account the possible effects on the workforce and the level of management involved.’;

(b)paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:‘4.Matters shall be considered to be transnational where they can reasonably be expected to concern the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings as a whole, or at least two undertakings or establishments of the undertaking or group situated in at least two different Member States.Those conditions shall be deemed to be met where:

(a)the measures considered by management of the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings can reasonably be expected to affect workers of that undertaking, of that group, or of any establishment of that undertaking or group, in more than one Member State; or

(b)the measures considered by management of the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings can reasonably be expected to affect workers of that undertaking, of that group, or of any establishment of that undertaking or group, in one Member State, and their workers in at least one other Member State can reasonably be expected to be affected by the consequences of those measures.’

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