Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time

Article 3: Daily rest

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The text below is copied word for word from Publications Office of the European Union, EUR-Lex, as it read on 18 October 2026.

Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that every worker is entitled to a minimum daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours per 24-hour period.

This is the text of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time as it stood on 18 October 2026 (checked by Omnikit on 18 October 2026). It may have changed since; the current text is at EUR-Lex.

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