Commission Decision (EU) 2017/877 of 16 May 2017 on the proposed citizens' initiative entitled ‘Let us reduce the wage and economic differences that tear the EU apart!’ (notified under document C(2017) 3382)

1 The proposed citizens' initiative entitled ‘Let us reduce the wage and economic differences that tear the EU apart!’ is registered.

2 However, statements of support for this proposed citizens' initiative may, in so far, as it aims at proposals from the Commission for legal acts of the Union for the purpose of implementing the Treaties in the fields of working conditions; of social security and social protection of workers; of protection of workers where their employment contract is terminated; of the information and consultation of workers; of representation and collective defence of the interests of workers and employers, including co-determination; of the integration of persons excluded from the labour market; of combating social exclusion; and of the modernisation of social protection systems; be colleted only inasmuch as those legal acts do not apply to pay or to the rights of association, to strike or to impose lock-outs.

This Decision shall enter into force on 22 May 2017.

This Decision is addressed to the organisers (members of the citizens' committee) of the proposed citizens' initiative entitled ‘Let us reduce the wage and economic differences that tear the EU apart!’, represented by Mr Márton GYÖNGYÖSI and Mr Jaak MADISON acting as contact persons.