§1 A minimum period of 35 uninterrupted hours of weekly rest

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

As noted above, Article 5 of the Working Time Directive provides that workers enjoy ‘per each seven-day period’ a rest period of 24 hours plus the 11 hours of daily rest, meaning that this period of 11 hours of daily rest cannot be subtracted from the weekly rest period. This amounts to a continuous rest period of 35 hours. As indicated above, this requirement is a minimum provision. Member States are free to establish additional or longer periods of rest insofar as this minimum is complied with.

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