To require workers to systematically work overtime and put in long working weeks is to destroy jobs.

Regarding daily and weekly working time in the Working Time Directive, the compromise always maintained the existing limits (including a minimum of 11 hours' continuous rest per day and a maximum average working week of 48 hours including overtime) and there was never any suggestion that these would be changed under the Presidency's proposal.

If we limit their overtime we would not be helping them but we would be further nailing them to a cross.

(8) There is a need to limit the duration of periods of night work, including overtime, and to provide for employers who regularly use night workers to bring this information to the attention of the competent authorities if they so request.

Chapter 3 (Flight plans), and Chapter 14, Paragraph 14.1.4 (Flight information region boundaries estimates) of Regional Supplementary Procedures, Doc. 7030/4 — EUR, Part 1, Rules of the Air, Air Traffic Services and Search and Rescue, (Fourth edition — 1987, incorporating Amendment No 210).

(9) Improvements need to be made to the poor conditions for supplying fresh milk products to local markets in the FOD, which at present come mainly from imports; this aim can be achieved on the one hand by continuing aid to develop cow's milk production within the limits of local consumption requirements as periodically evaluated under a supply balance, and on the other hand by ceasing to apply the arrangements for an additional levy on cow's milk producers laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92(4); the poor supply conditions typical of the outermost regions, which are completely different from those prevailing in the ...[+++]rest of the Community, and the need for a local production development incentive justify this derogation.