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However, the activities carried out under normal circumstances by safety and emergency services fall within the scope of Directive 89/391/EEC (71). The Court found that activities of the fire service carried out by operational forces on the ground (72) and activities of emergency workers tending the injured and sick (73) are capable of being organised in advance, including the working hours of its staff and the prevention of risks to safety and/or health. It left it to the national court to assess whether the activities of a police force carrying out surveillance of external Schengen borders have such specific characteristics or whether the influx at the borders prevented the surveillance of those borders from being carried out under normal circumstances (74).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.