Division 3 Groups of infringements against Directive 2002/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(Working time rules)
United Kingdom
| No | LEGAL BASIS | TYPE OF INFRINGEMENT | LEVEL OF SERIOUSNESS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSI | VSI | SI | ||||
| Maximum weekly working time | ||||||
| 1. | Article 4 | Exceeding maximum weekly working time of 48h if possibilities to extend to 60h already consumed | 56h ≤ … 60h | X | ||
| 2. | 60h ≤ … | X | ||||
| 3. | Exceeding maximum weekly working time of 60h if no derogation under Article 8 granted | 65 ≤ … < 70h | X | |||
| 4. | 70h ≤ … | X | ||||
| Breaks | ||||||
| 5. | Article 5.1 | Insufficient obligatory break taken when working time between 6 and 9 hours | 10 < … ≤ 20 min | X | ||
| 6. | … ≤ 10 min | X | ||||
| 7. | Insufficient obligatory break taken when working time over 9 hours | 20 < … ≤ 30min | X | |||
| 8. | … ≤ 20 min | X | ||||
| Night work | ||||||
| 9. | Article 7.1 | Daily working time in each 24h when night work performed if no derogation under Article 8 granted | 11h ≤ … < 13h | X | ||
| 10. | 13h ≤ … | X | ||||
| Records | ||||||
| 11. | Article 9 | Employers falsifying working time records or refusing to provide records to inspection officer | X | |||
| 12. | Employed/self-employed drivers falsifying records or refusing to provide records to inspection officer | X | ||||
Annotations
Footnotes
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Directive 2002/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities (OJ L 80, 23.3.2002, p. 35).
Notes on Division Categorisation of serious infringements
Textual amendments
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Words in Annex 1 inserted (1.1.2026) by The European Registers of Road Transport Undertakings (Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1202), regs. 1(1), 4(2)