It examined the impact of the European Working Time Directive, which cut the maximum number of hours doctors could work to 48 last year.

据调查去年由于欧洲工作时间标准的公布，医生工作的最长时间被削减到48小时。

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This work is of directive significance to the optimal design and operation of ripple plate surface.

本文工作对于波纹形翅片板翅表面的优化设计具有一定的指导意义。

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This market segment is expected to continue growing as EU member states work toward achieving their heating and cooling targets under the European Commission's Renewable Energy Directive.

这个市场预计将继续增长，因为欧盟成员国努力实现他们的供热和冷却目标，根据欧盟委员会的可再生能源指令。

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The Trades Union Congress says Britain's policy of allowing companies to opt-out of the European Union Working Time Directive, meaning people to work over the 48-hour a week limit on a "voluntary" basis, meant the protection it offered could be circumvented.

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They have not forgotten that, a few years later, the European Commission circumvented their opt-out by calling a directive to limit the hours employees may work a health-and-safety measure, not a social one.

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And a Tory promise to restore national control over social and employment legislation has been replaced by a more nuanced commitment to "examine the balance of the EU's existing competences" and, in particular, to "work to limit" the application of the working time directive.

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