ntr286-C_2023109EN.01000101-E0286

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Interpretative Communication on Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time · European Union

(286) Judgment in joined cases C-569/16 and C-570/16, Bauer and Willmeroth, para. 68. The obligation on the national courts to refer to EU law when they interpret and apply the relevant rules of national law is limited by general principles of law, and it cannot serve as the basis for an interpretation of national law contra legem. Judgment in case C-385/17, Hein, para. 51.

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