Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Giessen (Germany) lodged on 4 October 2007 — Hakan Er v Wetteraukreis

(Case C-453/07)

(2007/C 297/45)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgericht Giessen

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Hakan Er

Defendant: Wetteraukreis

Question referred

Does a Turkish national who, as a member of the family, received authorisation to join his father living in Germany who as a Turkish worker was duly registered as belonging to the labour force of the Federal Republic of Germany, and who acquired, by virtue of previously living together legally with his father for five years, the legal status as referred to in the second indent of the first sentence of Article 7 of Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council on the development of the association (‘Association Council Decision 1/80’), lose that legal status as a consequence of the fact that, for more than seven years after leaving school, apart from an alleged single day of work on a trial basis, he has at no time been in employment, drops out of all government support schemes designed to promote the taking-up of employment and does not himself make serious efforts to take up employment, instead living by turns on social security benefits, financial support from his mother living in Germany and means of unknown origin?