1.
(a)
Member States which make use of the option in Article 4 (2) (b) or (c) shall adopt the measures necessary to ensure that, for each 24-hour period, children are entitled to a minimum rest period of 14 consecutive hours.
(b)
Member States shall adopt the measures necessary to ensure that, for each 24-hour period, adolescents are entitled to a minimum rest period of 12 consecutive hours.
2. Member States shall adopt the measures necessary to ensure that, for each seven-day period:
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children in respect of whom they have made use of the option in Article 4 (2) (b) or (c), and
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adolescents
are entitled to a minimum rest period of two days, which shall be consecutive if possible.
Where justified by technical or organization reasons, the minimum rest period may be reduced, but may in no circumstances be less than 36 consecutive hours.
The minimum rest period referred to in the first and second subparagraphs shall in principle include Sunday.
3. Member States may, by legislative or regulatory provision, provide for the minimum rest periods referred to in pargraphs 1 and 2 to be interrupted in the case of activities involving periods of work that are split up over the day or are of short duration.
4. Member States may make legislative or regulatory provision for derogations from paragraph 1 (b) and paragraph 2 in respect of adolescents in the following cases, where there are objective grounds for so doing and provided that they are granted appropriate compensatory rest time and that the objetives set out in Article 1 are not called into question:
(a)
work performed in the shipping or fisheries sectors;
(b)
work performed in the context of the armed forces or the police;
(c)
work performed in hospitals or similar establishments;
(d)
work performed in agriculture;
(e)
work performed in the tourism industry or in the hotel, restaurant and cafe sector;
(f)
activities involving periods of work split up over the day.