25.8.2014   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 282/19


Request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Nacional (Spain) lodged on 2 June 2014 — Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) v Tyco Integrated Security, S.L. and Tyco Integrated Fire & Security Corporation Servicios, S.A.

(Case C-266/14)

2014/C 282/25

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Audiencia Nacional — Sala de lo Social

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.)

Defendant: Tyco Integrated Security, S.L. and Tyco Integrated Fire & Security Corporation Servicios, S.A.

Question referred

Must Article 2 of Directive 2003/88/EC (1) be interpreted as meaning that the time spent travelling at the beginning and end of the day by a worker who is not assigned to a fixed place of work but is required to travel every day from home to the premises of a different customer of the employer and to return home from the premises of another, different, customer (following a route or list that is determined for the worker by the employer the previous day), at all times within a geographical area that is more or less extensive, in the conditions of the main proceedings as described in the background to this question, constitutes ‘working time’ as that concept is defined in Article 2 of the directive or, conversely, must it be regarded as a ‘rest period’?


(1)  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

(OJ 2003 L 299, p. 9)