28The entitlement of every worker to paid annual leave must be regarded as a particularly important principle of Community social law from which there can be no derogations and the implementation of which by the competent national authorities must be confined within the limits expressly laid down by the directive itself (see, particularly, BECTU, cited above, paragraph 43, and Case C-342/01 Merino Gómez [2004] ECR I-2605, paragraph 29).
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