42It follows that the application of the first subparagraph of Article 2(2) of Directive 89/391 to services in the areas of public health, public safety and public order is justified only in the case of exceptional events, such as natural or technological disasters, attacks or serious accidents, the gravity and scale of which require the adoption of measures indispensable for the protection of the life, health and safety of the community at large, measures the proper implementation of which would be jeopardised if all the rules laid down in Directive 2003/88 had to be observed. Such circumstances justify absolute priority being given to the objective of protecting the population, to the detriment of compliance with the provisions of Directive 2003/88, which may be temporarily disregarded within those services (see, to that effect, order of 14 July 2005, Personalrat der Feuerwehr Hamburg, C‑52/04, EU:C:2005:467, paragraphs 53 to 55).
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