Posting of workers - Collection of data from the prior declaration tools - Reference year 2023

The data in this report only show the number and characteristics of the posted workers and postings reported in the prior declaration tools of the 27 Member States. A picture that may differ from the actual number of posted workers and postings in the EU. An additional relevant data source in this regard is data from the Portable Document A1 for mapping the posting of workers in the EU, although this also has its shortcomings. This report presents and analyses data on incoming posted workers available for 25 Member States for reference year 2023. In that year, around 1.5 million posted workers and 4 million postings, both from within and outside the EU, were reported in the national prior declaration tools. When comparing both totals, a worker was posted on average 2.7 times to another Member State to provide services. The four main receiving Member States of posted workers were Germany, Belgium, France, and Austria, the same top four as in the previous three reference years. Other important receiving Member States were Sweden, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, and Denmark, whereas in other Member States the number of reported incoming posted workers remained rather low.