22By way of preliminary matters, it should be noted, first, that, as is apparent from the very wording of Article 7(1) of Directive 2003/88 — a provision from which the directive allows no derogation — every worker is entitled to paid annual leave of at least four weeks, a right which, according to the Court’s established case-law, must be regarded as a particularly important principle of EU social law (judgment of 20 July 2016, Maschek, C‑341/15, EU:C:2016:576, paragraph 25 and the case-law cited).
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