News 2026

FIEC answered to the Call for Evidence on the "Skills Portability Initiative" launched by the European Commission. This legislative initiative will be presented in the framework of the Fair Labour Mobility package in the second half of 2026.

FIEC supports the overall objectives of the initiative, to ensure that qualifications and skills are portable across borders in the EU and to make the EU a more attractive place for talent.
 
Three actions are foreseen under this initiative:

- Action 1: A potential legislative proposal to facilitate worker mobility through improved transparency of skills and qualifications, and digitalisation;

- Action 2: Potential measures to facilitate modernise and expand recognition processes for regulated professions;

- Action 3: A potential legislative proposal for common rules to simplify procedures for the recognition of qualifications and skills of third country nationals;

FIEC welcomes this initiative but stresses the specificities of the construction sector: a well-established VET system, a diversity in the regulated professions, the access to certain construction activities which is subject to specific national requirements, etc. In particular, FIEC welcomes EU initiatives to improve transparency of skills and qualifications and the use of digital tools.

FIEC also supports coordinated measures at EU level, involving the Member States and the relevant stakeholders as well as the social partners, to harmonise national instruments for the recognition of skills of third country nationals.

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