Legal Experts Network - NETLEX
Description
The major functions of this network are, firstly, to assist the ETUC Secretariat, Executive and Standing Committees in the legal aspects of the policy priorities relating to EU matters and, secondly, to foster contacts between the legal experts of the member organisations in order to monitor and follow up the implications of and new developments in EC litigation and regulation. The three main working areas are:
1) Litigation/Implementation and revision of EU instruments
2) Employment contract aspects
3) Fundamental social rights and transnational trade union rights
In addition to the primary aim of information exchange, the network also constitutes a forum to conduct short- and medium-term research tasks either internally or in cooperation with external legal experts. The research agenda will be liable to alterations following the policy priorities put forward by the EU institutions and the ETUC. Major guiding documents in this respect will be the ETUC resolution and action programme adopted at the 11th ETUC Congress (May 2007- Seville) and the European Social Partners' Work Programme 2006-2008, as well as the initiatives deriving from the EU Social Agenda, the Green Paper on Labour law, the Communication on flexicurity, better regulation, etc. The ETUI-REHS will, in line with its own objectives, assist in establishing the links between the NETLEX and the academic world (i.e. proposing and conducting research projects within the NETLEX framework, ensuring the participation of academic experts in the NETLEX working groups, etc) and will handle the overall coordination and servicing of the network.
Researchers
Wiebke Warneck
Researcherphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 32
Isabelle Schömann
Senior Researcher, ETUI-REHS - NETLEX Coordinatorphone: +32 (0) 2 224 07 24 and + 49 421 200 5020
Stefan Clauwaert
Senior researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 04
