CELEX: E2020J0011
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 15 July 2021 in Case E-11/20 Eyjólfur Orri Sverrisson v The Icelandic State (Directive 2003/88/EC – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Working time – Travel to a location other than a worker’s fixed or habitual place of attendance – International travel) 2021/C 426/07

21.10.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 426/10
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
      of 15 July 2021
      in Case E-11/20
      Eyjólfur Orri Sverrisson v The Icelandic State
      
         
            (Directive 2003/88/EC – Protection of the safety and health of workers – Working time – Travel to a location other than a worker’s fixed or habitual place of attendance – International travel)
         
      
      (2021/C 426/07)
      In Case E-11/20, Eyjólfur Orri Sverrisson v The Icelandic State – REQUEST to the Court under Article 34 of the Agreement between the EFTA States on the Establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice by Reykjavík District Court (Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur) concerning the interpretation of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time, in particular Article 2 (1), the Court, composed of Páll Hreinsson, President, Per Christiansen and Bernd Hammermann (Judge-Rapporteur), Judges, gave judgment on 15 July 2021, the operative part of which is as follows:
      
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                  The necessary time spent travelling, outside normal working hours, by a worker, such as the plaintiff in the main proceedings, to a location other than his fixed or habitual place of attendance in order to carry out his activity or duties in that other location, as required by his employer, constitutes ‘working time’ within the meaning of Article 2(1) of Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time. It is immaterial whether that journey is made entirely within the EEA or to or from third countries if the employment agreement is established under and governed by the national law of an EEA State.
               
            
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                  No assessment of the intensity of the work performed while travelling is required.