In most Member States, working hours spent at the workplace were not treated as real work time, and as soon as they had to be counted as fixed working hours, the Member States began to opt out in order to comply with the directive.

22. Takes the view that the various forms of online gambling – such as rapid interactive games of chance which have to be played at a frequency of seconds, betting, and lotteries involving a weekly draw – differ from one another and require different solutions insofar as some forms of gambling afford greater opportunities for abuse than others; notes in particular that the opportunity for money laundering depends on the strength of identification, the type of game and the methods of payment used, which makes it necessary, in respect of some forms of game, to monitor play in real time and exercise stricter control than is the case with o ...[+++]ther forms of game;

Time spent by artists on rehearsals should be considered effective working time.

Parliament is also part of this blame game now and then.

Therefore, in terms of actual working time, for a Presidency with this mandate during the second half of the year, four months are left.

‘real-time’ means the actual time during which a process or event occurs.