Brussels, 03/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Adopting by a slim majority the own-initiative report by Spanish Socialist MEP Alejandro Cercas on the organisation of working hours (revision of Directive 93/104/EEC), the EP Committee on Employment and Social Affairs strongly criticises Member States' abusive use of the individual opt out clause, particularly the United Kingdom. Those supporting abolition of this provision and those who wish to keep it confronted each other on the occasion of a very...