ANDIn a statement, the European Group of Territorial Cooperation (AECT) Galicia – North of Portugal (GNP) indicates that it brought together today, in Vigo, the social and economic agents of the Euroregion to prepare the content of the Cross-Border Worker Statute, which covers “15,000 citizens who cross the line every day to go to work”.
The AECT indicates that this is the “first technical meeting of this group that will hand over the work to the governments of Spain and Portugal, before the next Iberian Summit in October”.
The working group “wants the Cross-Border Worker Statute to become a reality as quickly as possible, to facilitate circulation, access to information and the exercise of rights for workers who habitually reside or work in the border area”, adds the AECT GNP.
The meeting also resulted in a commitment that the Cross-Border Worker Statute be an effective “charter of the rights and duties of cross-border workers, so that they are not disadvantaged in relation to national workers” of both countries.
This working group was encouraged by the regional government of the Junta de Galicia and the North IP Regional Coordination and Development Commission, “with the aim of defining the main issues that must be addressed by the Statute and proposing solutions so that this tool allows progress towards a more efficient and cohesive labor market, to the benefit of the inhabitants of border territories”.
“The objective is for the Cross-Border Worker Statute to facilitate movement, access to information and the exercise of rights for workers residing or working in the border territories of Galicia and the North of Portugal, and therefore, Portugal and Spain” , points out the AECT.
The statute is intended to “facilitate the implementation of the rights under the national legislation of each of the States and the relevant instruments of European Union Law or International Law, in employment, professional training, working conditions, including safety and health”.
According to the AECT, the statute must “establish a common and consensual definition of the figure of the Cross-Border Worker, which is the only one valid in terms of labor, taxation and social security, establish its scope of application, as well as the relationship between the entrepreneur and the worker”.
Since 2020, the Euroregion has proposed, at Iberian Summits, “a series of ‘Priorities’, with the main petitions referring to labor issues, to improve the conditions of cross-border workers”, says the AECT.
The Group recalls that at the Guarda Summit, in 2020, “the two governments announced the drafting of this Statute, as one of the pillars within the Common Cross-Border Development Strategy”.
In 2021, at the Summit in Trujillo, Extremadura, “an Institutional Cooperation Protocol was signed regarding cross-border workers, which proposed the creation of a working group to draw up the Statute and which would be applicable to the aforementioned cross-border workers”, without autonomous communities and regions have been “called to this group”.
In 2022, in Viana do Castelo, “only an informative Guide for Border work between Spain and Portugal was published”, with “the information published by Eures Transfronteiriço Galiza – Norte de Portugal on its website”, laments the AECT.
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