Summer-time arrangements: 8th Directive

The Committee endorses the proposals in the Draft Directive. Despite their perceived shortcomings, the Committee commends the Report and the Study to interested parties in those Member States where any change is contemplated as providing some objective data on which to base their assessment of the position. The Committee endorses the Commission's statement that its task is confined to the harmonization of dates for the starting and ending of summer time and that any decision to alter other time arrangements in the individual Member States rests with them alone. �