The Court therefore confirmed that "Directive 93/104 must be interpreted as meaning th
at a period of duty spent by a doctor on call ('Bereitschaftsdienst'), where presence in the hospital is required, must be regarded as constituting in i
ts entirety working time for the purposes of that Directive, even though the
person concerned is permitted to rest at his place of work during the periods when his services are not required, with t
...[+++]he result that that Directive precludes a Member State's legislation which classifies as a rest period an employee's periods of inactivity in the context of such on-call duty".