The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has sharply criticized the Commission’s estimate of cost savings through the eDeclaration. According to the ETUC, the first version of the Commission’s working document still stated that a European declaration portal and the standardized questionnaire on the posting of workers would result in savings of €1,414,000 – assuming that nine countries participate as announced. If all states were to participate, the savings would be „around €13,945,000“, ETUC quotes the first document.