Previous Directives

The following Directives were consolidated and replaced by Directive: 2003/88/EC

• Directive 2000/34/EC amending Directive 93/104/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of Working Time to cover sectors and activities excluded from that Directive
• Directive 93/104/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of Working Time 

Archive documents on Directive 2003/88/EC: 2017-2022

• Report on the implementation by Member States of the Working Time Directive (2017)
• Detailed implementation report - Staff Working Document (2017)
• Interpretative Communication on Directive 2003/88/EC (2017/C 165/01)
• Case law of the Court of Justice of the EU: July 2017-September 2022

Archive documents: 2014-2015 - Studies on possible changes to Directive 2003/88/EC

• Study measuring economic impacts of various possible changes to EU working time rules in the context of the review of Directive 2003/88/EC
• Study measuring the economic, financial and organisational implications for public health care services from possible changes to the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC - Final report
• Study measuring the economic, financial and organisational implications for public health care services from possible changes to the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC - Technical Annex

Archive documents: 2010-2012 - 2-stage consultation of EU-level workers' and employers' representatives on the possibilities to amend Directive 2003/88/EC

The consultation process did not result in a social partners’ agreement.

• Review of the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC: measuring administrative costs and burdens of various possible options - Final report
• Review of the Working Time Directive 2003/88/EC: measuring administrative costs and burdens of various possible options - Annexes
• Communication COM (2010) 801: Reviewing the Working Time Directive (second-phase consultation) of the social partners at European level
• Commission Report COM (2010) 802: Report on the implementation by Member States of the 'Working Time Directive'
• Staff Working Paper SEC (2010) 1611: Detailed report on the implementation by Member States of the 'Working Time Directive'
• Staff Working Paper SEC (2010) 1610: Overview of the replies received from the social partners at European Level to the first-phase consultation on Reviewing the Working Time Directive
• Reviewing the Working Time Directive: Accompanying letter from Robert Verrue to EU social partners (2010)
• Deloitte Study (December 2010) to support an Impact Assessment on Further action at European level regarding Directive 2003/88/EC and the evolution of working time organisation / Executive Summary / Annexes 1-4 
  • Annex 1: Study on health ans safety aspects of working time 
  • Annex 3: Study on the impact on business: survey analysis
• Expert Study: Flexible working time arrangements and gender equality (J. Plantenga and C. Remery, 2010)
• Eurofound (EFWL) studies: Comparative analysis of working time in the European Union (2010) / Fifth Working Conditions Survey (2010) / Revisions to the European working time directive: recent research (2008)
• European Commission research paper: Short time working arrangements as response to cyclical fluctuations (2010)
• Communication COM (2010) 106: Reviewing the Working Time Directive (first-phase consultation) of the social partners at European level

Archive documents on Directive 2003/88/EC: 2006-2009

• External consultants's study (Executive Summaries) on the implementation of Directive 2003/88/EC in Bulgaria and in Romania (2009)
• Commission Report COM (2006) 371 - Operation of the provisions of Directive 2003/88/EC on the organisation of working time for workers concerned with the carriage of passengers on regular urban transport services
• Commission Report COM (2006) 853 - Operation of the provisions of Directive 2003/88/EC applicable to offshore workers

Archive documents: 2004-2009 - proposal to amend Directive 2003/88/EC

This proposal was not adopted, since the European Parliament and the Council did not reach agreement on an amended Directive text.

• Commission Opinion COM (2009) 57 on the amendments of the European Parliament in second reading
• Amendments adopted by the European Parliament on the second reading, 17 December 2008 [A6/2008/440]
• Commission Communication COM (2008) 568 to the European Parliament on the Council's Common Position
• Common Position of the Council concluding the first reading, 15 September 2008
• Commission's amended proposal COM (2005) 246 for a Directive amending Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time
• Opinion of the European Parliament in the first reading [A6/2005/105]
• Commission's proposal COM (2004) 607 for a Directive amending Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time
• Second Phase of the Consultation of the Social Partners concerning the revision of Directive 93/104/EC
• Commission Communication COM (2003) 843 on the re-examination of Directive 93/104/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of Working Time

Archive documents on Directive 2000/34/EC

• Commission White Paper COM (1997) 334 on Sectors and activities excluded from the Working Time Directive
• Commission Communication COM (1998) 662 - package of proposals regarding the organisation of Working Time in the sectors and activities excluded from Directive 93/104/EC including proposal for an amending Directive extending Directive 93/104/EC to cover certain sectors and activities
• Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time
• Business Impact Assessment Working Time Directive: Supplementary Report on Doctors in training
• Working Time: extent of coverage of excluded sectors and activities in national legislation [1996D2012]

Archive documents on Directive 1993/104/EC

• Commission proposal COM (1990) 317 for a Directive concerning certain aspects of the organisation of Working Time
• Commission re-examined proposal COM (1993) 578 for a Directive concerning certain aspects of the organisation of Working Time
• Study (1998): Research and Development on Working Time [1997D2009]
• Study (2003): Business Impact Assessment Working Time Directive: Supplementary Report on Doctors in training
• Commission Report COM (2000) 787 - State of Implementation of Council Directive 93/104/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time