42While Member States thus enjoy a discretion for that purpose, it remains the case that, having regard to the essential objective pursued by Directive 2003/88, which is to ensure the effective protection of the living and working conditions of workers and better protection of their safety and health, they are required to ensure that the effectiveness of those rights is guaranteed in full, by ensuring that workers actually benefit from the minimum daily and weekly rest periods and the limitation on the duration of average weekly working time laid down in that directive (see, to that effect, judgments of 1 December 2005, Dellas and Others, C‑14/04, EU:C:2005:728, paragraph 53; of 7 September 2006, Commission v United Kingdom, C‑484/04, EU:C:2006:526, paragraphs 39 and 40; and of 14 October 2010, Fuß, C‑243/09, EU:C:2010:609, paragraph 64).
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