EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCIL DIRECTIVE

    • European Works Council Directive (2009 recast)
      Directive 2009/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (Recast)
    • European Works Council Directive
      Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees.
    • European Works Council Directive (UK)
      Council Directive 97/74/EC of 15 December 1997 extending, to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Directive 94/45/EC on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees
    • European Works Council Directive (BG, RO)
      Council Directive 2006/109/EC of 20 November 2006 adapting Directive 94/45/EC on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania
    • Related EU documents / reports can be downloaded from the EU Commission website.

    You can find all the national transposition acts of the EU Directive 2009/38/EC on the EWC database portal of the ETUI in original languages and an English translation (automated).

    An analysis of transposition of the EU Directive 2009/38/EC into national law by R. Jagodziński 2015 (ed.) Variations on a theme? ETUI, Brussels can be accessed and downloaded from the ETUI website.