Keywords
Summary

Keywords

International agreements - EEC-Turkey Association Agreement - Freedom of movement for persons - Workers - Turkish national employed for more than four years in a Member State who subsequently leaves his employment voluntarily - Right of residence to seek other employment - Condition - Duration of residence - Fixing within reasonable limits by legislation or, in the absence thereof, by national courts

(Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Council of Association, Art. 6(1), third indent)

Summary

The third indent of Article 6(1) of Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Council of Association must be interpreted as meaning that a Turkish worker who has been legally employed for more than four years in a Member State, who decides voluntarily to leave his employment in order to seek new work in the same Member State and is unable immediately to enter into a new employment relationship, enjoys in that State, for a reasonable period, a right of residence for the purpose of seeking new paid employment there, provided that he continues to be duly registered as belonging to the labour force of the Member State concerned, complying where appropriate with the requirements of the legislation in force in that State, for instance by registering as a person seeking employment and making himself available to the employment authorities. It is for the Member State concerned and, in the absence of legislation to that end, for the national court before which the matter has been brought to fix such a reasonable period, which must, however, be sufficient not to jeopardize in fact the prospects of his finding new employment.