Sectorial Social Dialogue Committee for the footwear industry, Employers' representatives: European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC), Workers' representatives: European Trade Union Federation of Textiles, Clothing and Leather (ETUF:TCL)

Summary of the initiative

Name
Sectorial Social Dialogue Committee for the footwear industry, Employers' representatives: European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC), Workers' representatives: European Trade Union Federation of Textiles, Clothing and Leather (ETUF:TCL)
Objective(s)
This Charter follows the Charter of ILO. It mainly seems to provide for workers that work for European companies based outside EU territories (third countries, emerging markets), because the workers' rights secured by this charter are already secured under the Community and MS legislation and Constitutions.

Description of the Initiative

    Sector

    Sector

    Contact Point - Commission
    EMPL F.1

    Self/Co-Regulation Basic Act

    LEGISLATIVE ACT
    Year
    2007
    Title of Act
    Articles 154 and 155 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
    PRIVATE ACT
    Year
    2000
    Title of Act
    Charter of the social partners in the footwear sector

    Geographical Coverage

    Global coverage
    Participating Countries
    Austria
    Other countries
    Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo

    Description

    Problems that lead to the introduction of Self/Co-Regulation and the adoption of the Founding Act
    Child labour
    Target Group(s)
    Footwear sector.
    Type of Instrument(s)
    The EU social partners pursued an autonomous dialogue following the process of social dialogue but resulting in "new generation agreements or autonomous agreements". These are not transposed into legal acts and therefore do not fall in the remit of traditional social dialogue. Autonomous agreements or new generation agreements are implemented by the procedures and practices specific to management, labour and the Member States.
    Level(s) at which private rules should be defined and applied
    Type of Financing
    -
    Type of Monitoring
    Conduct an initial survey of compliance capacity of future regulateesConduct regular visits and spot checksInitiate complaints proceduresMaintain database of those bounded by the normsProduce regular reportsReceive complaints and verify if norms were breached or notReflexive dialogue with the - stakeholdersOther
    European Commissionyesyes
    National public authority
    International public authority
    Private regulator (code owner)yesyes
    Private independent party with a mandate (e.g. auditors)
    Self-appointed private parties (e.g. NGOs)
    Succinct description of the type of Monitoring
    While respecting the principle of the autonomy of the social partners, the Commission will publish autonomous agreements and inform the European Parliament and the Council after undertaking an ex-ante assessment as it does for Article 139(2) agreements to be implemented by Council Decision. Commission may also monitor the agreements ex post. Upon the expiry of the implementation and monitoring period, while giving precedence to the monitoring undertaken by the social partners themselves, the Commission will undertake its own monitoring of the agreement, to assess the extent to which the agreement has contributed to the achievement of the Community´s objectives. The CEC and the ETUF:TCL agreed to follow up, in the framework of the sectoral social dialogue at European level, the gradual fulfilment of the implementation of this Code of conduct. In case of complaints, it is asked for a communication to be addressed to one of the social partners, specifying the nature of the complaints; a discussion will follow in the framework of the European social dialogue. To this effect, the CEC and the ETUF:TCL will conduct an evaluation of the implementation of the present Code, at least once a year in the framework of the European social dialogue; the first evaluation took place in 2001. They could ask the Commission and Member States to provide the necessary assistance in order to carry out the evaluation.
    Type of Enforcement
    Faming, shaming and blamingJudicial sanctionsMembership suspension/exclusionPrivate finesOther
    Private Regulator
    Private independent party with a mandate (e.g. auditors)
    Court system
    Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) / Online dispute resolution (ODR)
    Succinct description of the type of Enforcement
    -

    Results of Commission Monitoring

    Year of last Monitoring Results
    2004
    Scoring
    Link / Reference of Evaluation
    Communication from the Commission, Partnership for change in an enlarged Europe - Enhancing the contribution of European social dialogue, COM(2004) 557 final, 12.08.2004.

    Downloads

    SMO self- and co-regulation database - private code 6