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As stated above, Article 22 specifies that use of the opt-out is subject to ‘respecting the general principles of the protection of the safety and health of workers’ and expressly envisages that even workers who have agreed to opt out may be prevented or restricted from exceeding an average 48-hour week by intervention of the competent authorities ‘for reasons concerned with the safety and/or health of workers’. The precise limits required by health and safety reasons may depend on the exact facts and the nature of the activities involved but may well be below the theoretical 78 hours maximum (415).

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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.