33Moreover, in order to ensure that the rights conferred on workers by Directive 2003/88 are fully effective, Member States are under an obligation to guarantee that each of the minimum requirements laid down by the directive is observed and to prevent in particular the maximum average weekly working time as provided for in Article 6(b) of that directive from being exceeded. That interpretation is the only interpretation which meets the objective pursued by that directive, which is to guarantee effective protection of the safety and health of workers by allowing them to have a period of working time which does not, on average, exceed the maximum limit of 48 hours per week over the entire duration of the reference period (see, to that effect, judgments of 7 September 2006, Commission v United Kingdom, C‑484/04, EU:C:2006:526, paragraph 40 and the case-law cited, and of 14 October 2010, Fuß, C‑243/09, EU:C:2010:609, paragraph 51 and the case-law cited).
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