WORKING TIME
February 1st, 2003
Keith NuthallTHE EUROPEAN Commission is threatening legal action at the European Court of Justice against France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Italy, alleging that they have failed to write into their national legislation European Union rules limiting the working hours of seafarers on ships calling at EU ports. The Commission has sent each of these governments a so-called reasoned opinion, a legal final warning letter that gives them two months in which to say how they will comply, or else risk facing proceedings at the court, which has the power to order compliance. ...
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