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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8538

10 September 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Judges specify notion of working and rest hours for doctors on-call

Luxembourg, 09/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling of the Court acting in plenary (thirteen judges), the Court of Justice declares that a German doctor on call, Norbert Jaeger, was right in saying that the periods when on-call in the hospital - with the possibility of sleeping while waiting to be called - should be considered as work periods and not rest periods. The Council's Directive 93/104/EC on working hours is opposed to the German regulation which describes on-call times...

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