CJEU, 2 March 2023, Case  C477/21, MÁV-START

Interpreting Directive 2003/88/EC of 4 November 2003, concerning the organisation of working time, the EU Court of Justice has ruled that the daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours (Article 3) is not part of the weekly rest period of 24 hours (Article 5), but is additional to it, even if it directly precedes the latter. The same applies where national law or a collective agreement stipulates a weekly rest period lasting longer than 24 hours. The 11-hour daily rest period is also additional to this. The Court explains that the “directive provides the right to daily rest and the right to weekly rest in two different provisions”, which “indicates that they are two autonomous rights”