CELEX: 51987PC0541
Language: en
Date: 1987-11-05
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A FOURTH COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON SUMMERTIME ARRANGEMENTS

No C 325/6                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                4.12.87
                                                               II
                                                       (Preparatory Acts)
                                                 COMMISSION
                           Proposal for a Fourth Council Directive on summer time arrangements
                                                      COM(87) HI final
               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council in cooperation with the European Parliament on 9
                                                        November 1987)
                                                         (87/C 325/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                                             Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100A
thereof,                                                           For the purposes of this Directive the expression
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, in              'summer time period' means the period of the year
cooperation with the European Parliament,                          during which the time is advanced by 60 minutes in
                                                                   relation to the time for the rest of the year.
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,                                                                            Article 2
Whereas the Third Council Directive 84/634/EEC of 12               Member States shall take the measures necessary to
December 1984 on summer time arrangements (*), as last             ensure that in each Member State the summer time
amended by Directive 85/582/EEC (2), introduced a                  period for 1989 begins at 1 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time
common date and time throughout the Community for                  on the last Sunday in March.
the beginning of the summer time period for 1986, 1987
and 1988, and for the end of that period in those years                                      Article 3
two different dates, one for Member States apart from
Ireland and the United Kingdom, and one for Ireland                The Member States, apart from Ireland and the United
and the United Kingdom;                                            Kingdom, shall take the measures necessary to ensure
                                                                   that the summer time period for 1989 ends at 1 a.m.
Whereas Article 5 of the said Directive provides that the          Greenwich Mean Time, on Sunday 24 September.
Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission,
shall adopt by 1 January 1988 the arrangements to apply                                      Article 4
from 1989 onwards;
                                                                   Ireland and the United Kingdom shall take the measures
Whereas as all the necessary elements on which a                   necessary to ensure that the summer time period for
definitive ruling concerning summer time can be based               1989 ends at 1 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, on Sunday
are not currently available, the present arrangement               22 October.
should be continued in 1989;
                                                                                             Article 5
Whereas a common date and time for the beginning of
the summer time period in the whole Community area                 The Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission,
should be fixed for this year;                                     shall adopt by 1 January 1989 the arrangements to apply
Whereas, on a provisional basis during this year, two              from 1990 onwards.
different dates for the end of the summer time period
                                                                                             Article 6
should be fixed for the Member States apart from
Ireland and the United Kingdom on one hand, and                    This Directive shall not apply to the overseas territories
Ireland and the United Kingdom on the other;                       of the Member States.
Whereas, for geographical reasons, common summer                                             Article 7
time arrangements should not apply to the overseas
territories of the Member States,                                  This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
0) OJ No L 331, 19. 12. 1984, p. 33.
(2) OJ No L 372, 31. 12. 1985, p. 38.