Recital 16

This Directive aims to improve the working conditions of platform workers and to protect the personal data of persons performing platform work. Both objectives are pursued simultaneously and, while mutually reinforcing and inseparably linked, one is not secondary to the other. As regards Article 153(1), point (b), TFEU, this Directive sets out rules aiming to support the determination of the correct employment status of persons performing platform work and to improve working conditions and transparency with regard to platform work, including in cross-border situations, as well as to protect workers in the context of algorithmic management. As regards Article 16 TFEU, this Directive establishes rules to improve the protection of persons performing platform work with regard to the processing of their personal data by increasing the transparency, fairness, human oversight, safety and accountability of relevant algorithmic management procedures in platform work.