Expert advice on the Directives and the Regulations, and their effect on the production of television programmes, may be obtained by PACT members only, from the Producers’ Industrial Relations Service at (tel) 44 (0)207-830-6600 or (e-mail) pirs@pact.co.uk.

If you need to see the text of the Regulations themselves, you can access them on the Internet at http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1998/19981833.htm. The text of the Working Time Directive can be seen at http://www.incomesdata.co.uk/brief/wtimedir.htm.