Prospective
Composition of the European Works CouncilU.K.
2.—(1) The European Works Council shall comprise a minimum of three, and a maximum of 30, members.
(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1), the European Works Council shall be constituted in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) below.
(3) There shall be on the European Works Council at least one member representing each Member State in which the Community-scale undertaking has one or more establishments, or in which the Community-scale group of undertakings has its controlling undertaking or one or more controlled undertakings.
(4) There shall be on the European Works Council the following additional members—
(a)one additional member from a Member State in which there are employed 25 per cent or more but less than 50 per cent of the employees of the undertaking or group of undertakings who are employed in the Member States;
(b)two additional members from a Member State in which there are employed 50 per cent or more but less than 75 per cent of the employees of the undertaking or group of undertakings who are employed in the Member States;
(c)three additional members from a Member State in which there are employed 75 per cent or more of the employees of the undertaking or group of undertakings who are employed in the Member States.
(5) The European Works Council shall inform the central management and any more appropriate level of management of the composition of the European Works Council.
(6) Where the European Works Council decides its size so warrants, it shall elect from among its members a select committee comprising no more than three members who are to act on behalf of the European Works Council.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. para. 2 in force at 15.1.2000, see reg. 1(1)