25In order to provide an answer which will be of use to the referring court, it must, in the first place, be recalled, as is apparent from the very wording of Article 7(1) of Directive 2003/88, a provision from which that directive allows no derogation, that every worker is entitled to paid annual leave of at least four weeks. That right to paid annual leave which, according to settled case-law, must be regarded as a particularly important principle of EU social law, is therefore granted to every worker, whatever his state of health (judgments in Schultz-Hoff and Others, C‑350/06 and C‑520/06, EU:C:2009:18, paragraph 54, and Neidel, C‑337/10, EU:C:2012:263, paragraph 28).
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