b) Provisions from which derogations are permitted
The derogations relate to the following provisions: daily rest (Article 3); breaks (Article 4); weekly rest period (Article 5); the length of night work (Article 8); the reference periods for application of the weekly rest period, the maximum weekly working time and the length of night work (Article 16). The other provisions of the Directive continue to apply and the Court has stressed that this derogation ‘does not allow derogations from the definitions of the concepts of working time and rest period in Article 2 of the Directive’ (387).
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.