49That said, it must recalled that the minimum weekly rest period provided for in that provision is 24 hours uninterrupted. However, Article 15 of that directive allows Member States to apply or introduce provisions more favourable to the protection of the safety and health of workers or to facilitate or permit the application of collective agreements or agreements concluded between the two sides of industry that are more favourable to such protection. Thus, in accordance with the collective agreement applicable to the dispute in the main proceedings, the worker concerned was granted a weekly rest period of at least 42 hours. In such a case, the weekly rest hours thus granted beyond the minimum required in Article 5 of Directive 2003/88 are governed not by that directive but by national law (see, to that effect, judgment of 19 November 2019, TSN and AKT, C‑609/17 and C‑610/17, EU:C:2019:981, paragraphs 34 and 35).
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