The CESP (European Council of Police Trade Unions) claims that the new regulations introduced by the French Government on 15 April 2008 (General Regulations on Employment in the National Police Service and General Instruction on the organisation of working hours in the National Police Service) are in breach of Article 2§1 on the grounds that it is impossible to ascertain whether daily and weekly police working hours are reasonable because such working hours are not recorded. The CESP also contends that the flat, ie non-increased, rate of remuneration for overtime work provided for in the new regulations of 17 April 2008 (the General Regulations on the National Police Service and Instruction NOR INTC0800092c) infringes Article 4§2 (because the rate of remuneration for overtime work, where the latter is taken into consideration, is based on a rate below the hourly rate for police officers, and where compensation is available in the form of rest periods, such compensation is ineffective.

• Case Document no. 1, Complaint registered at the Secretariat on 3 December 2008
• Case Document no. 2, Written submissions from the Government on the merits  
• Case Document no. 3, Response of the CESP to the governement's submissions on the merits

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 17 February 2009.

The European Committee of Social Rights concluded that there was no violation of Articles  2§1 and 4§2 and transmitted  its report containing its decision on the merits of the complaint to the Parties and to the Committee of Ministers on 3 December 2010.

The Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/ResChS(2011)1 on 19 January 2011.
 

 Decision on admissibility of the Complaint 54/2008

 Decision on the merits of the Complaint 54/2008

 Resolution ResChS(2011)1 of the Committee of Ministers on 19 January 2011