C. Guarantees for night time working
This provision allows Member States to increase the protective measures applicable to certain ‘categories of night workers’. It does not permit derogations but rather explicitly provides that additional protective measures can be set up. Information from the adoption file for the Directive suggests that the European Parliament’s intention for this provision was to allow protection of pregnant women or mothers in the first 6 months after giving birth or adopting a child (359). The wording of Article 10, however, is open and Member States may freely decide on the categories subject to such guarantees and the nature of the guarantees.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.