PURPOSE: to fix a common date and time for the beginning and end of the summer-time period throughout the Community.
COMMUNITY MEASURE: Directive 2000/84/EC on summer-time arrangements.
CONTENT: The main provisions of the Regulation are the following:
- 'summer-time period' shall mean the period of the year during which clocks are put forward by 60 minutes compared with the rest of the year;
- from 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall begin, in every Member State, at 1 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday of March;
- from 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall end, in every Member State, at 1 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in October.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 02.02.2001.�