Regulation 4 Working time

Subject to paragraph (2) below, the working time, including overtime, of a mobile worker F1or self-employed driver shall not exceed 60 hours in a week.

In any reference period which is applicable to his case, F2the working time of a mobile worker or self-employed driver shall not exceed an average of 48 hours for each week.

The reference periods which apply F3... shall be—

The reference period may be extended in relation to particular mobile workers or groups of mobile workers for objective or technical reasons or reasons concerning the organisation of work, by a collective agreement or a workforce agreement, by the substitution for 17 weeks of a period not exceeding 26 weeks in the application of paragraphs (2) and (3)(a) above.

The reference period may be extended in relation to self-employed drivers for objective or technical reasons or reasons concerning the organisation of work, by the substitution for 17 weeks of a period not exceeding 26 weeks in the application of paragraphs (2) and (3)(b) above.

F8The average weekly working time during a reference period shall be determined according to the formula—

In paragraph (5), “excluded hours” means hours comprised in—

For the purposes of paragraph (5), the number of hours in a whole day shall be eight and the number of hours in a whole week shall be forty-eight.

An employer shall take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect the health and safety of the mobile worker, to ensure that the limits specified above are complied with in the case of each mobile worker employed by him.

A self-employed driver must take all reasonable steps, in keeping with the need to protect his health and safety, to comply with the limits specified above.