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In light of the Court’s case-law, the equivalent compensatory rest is ‘characterised by the fact that during such periods the worker is not subject to any obligation vis-à-vis his employer which may prevent him from pursuing freely and without interruption his own interests in order to neutralise the effects of work on his safety or health’ (Commission’s emphasis) (393). Indeed, the Court has stressed that ‘the worker must be able to remove himself from his working environment’ and that this should ‘enable him to relax and dispel the fatigue caused by the performance of his duties’ (394).
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.