CELEX: 51988PC0401
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-13
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A FIFTH COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON SUMMERTIME ARRANGEMENTS

2. 8. 88                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No C 201/5
                          Proposal for a Fifth Council Directive on summertime arrangements
                                              COM(88) 401 final — SYN 141
                                     (Submitted by the Commission on 19 July 1988)
                                                       (88/C 201/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECIWE:
                                                                                         Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 100A              For the purposes of this Directive the expression
thereof,                                                        'summertime period' means the period of the year during
                                                                which the time is advanced by 60 minutes in relation to
                                                                the time for the rest of the year.
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                         Article 2
In cooperation with the European Parliament,
                                                                Member States shall take the measures necessary to
                                                                ensure that in each Member State the summertime period
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                for 1990, 1991 and 1992 begins at 1 a.m. Greenwich
Social Committee,                                               Mean Time on the last Sunday in March.
Whereas the Fourth Council Directive 88/14/EEC of 22                                     Article 3
December 1987 on summertime arrangements (')
                                                                 1.   Member States shall take the measures necessary to
introduced a common date and time throughout the
                                                                ensure that the summertime period for 1990, 1991 and
Community for the beginning of the summertime period
                                                                 1992 ends at 1 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on the last
for 1989 and, for the end of that period in that year, two
                                                                Sunday in September, that is to say:
different dates, one for Member States apart from
Ireland and the United Kingdom and one for Ireland              — in 1990: on 30 September,
and the United Kingdom;                                         — in 1991: on 29 September,
                                                                — in 1992: on 27 September.
Whereas Article 5 of the Fourth Directive provides that
                                                                2.    Ireland and the United Kingdom may however take
the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission,
                                                                the measures necessary to ensure that the summertime
shall adopt by 1 January 1989 the arrangements to apply
                                                                period for 1990, 1991 and 1992 ends at 1 a.m.
from 1990 onwards;
                                                                Greenwich Mean Time, on the fourth Sunday in
                                                                October, that is to say:
Whereas it is appropriate to re-examine the summertime
                                                                — in 1990: on 28 October,
period from time to time and for this purpose
arrangements therefore should be adopted for 1990,              — in 1991: on 27 October,
1991 and 1992;                                                  — in 1992: on 25 October.
                                                                3.    Should Ireland and the United Kingdom decide
Whereas a common date and time for the beginning and            before 1992 to align the end of their summertime period
end of the summertime period should be fixed in the             with those provided for in paragraph 1, they shall notify
whole Community area for those years;                           the Commission which will inform the other Member
                                                                States thereof.
Whereas, for geographical, reasons, Ireland and the
United Kingdom should be given the possibility of                                        Article 4                    {
fixing, in some or all of those three years, an end date        The Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission,
different from that provided for the other Member               shall adopt by 1 January 1992 the arrangements to apply
States;                                                         from 1993 onwards.
Whereas, for geographical reasons, common summertime                                     Article 5
arrangements should not apply to the overseas territories
                                                                This Directive shall not apply to the overseas territories
of the Member States;
                                                                of the Member States.
                                                                                         Article 6
O OJ No L 6, 9. 1. 1988, p. 38.                                 This Directive is addressed to the Member States.