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This provision – and the next, concerning workers on board seagoing fishing vessels – was inserted when the 1993 Directive was amended by Directive 2000/34/EC. The aim of the amending Directive was ‘to apply all the provisions of the Directive to as many workers as possible, including non-mobile workers, all mobile and non-mobile railway workers and offshore workers; to extend to certain mobile workers the Directive’s provisions on 4 weeks’ paid annual leave and certain provisions in relation to night work and shift work (including health assessments); and to provide for these workers a guarantee of adequate rest and a limit on the number of hours to be worked annually. This last provision will also apply to offshore workers’ (416). The resulting text therefore includes mobile and offshore workers in the scope of the Working Time Directive but provides for specific derogations.
Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.