Keywords
Summary

Keywords

International agreements - EEC-Turkey Association Agreement - Association Council established by the EEC-Turkey Association Agreement - Decision concerning freedom of movement for workers - Reuniting of family - Access of members of the family of a Turkish worker belonging to the labour force in a Member State to paid employment of their choice in that Member State - Corresponding right to extension of residence permit

(Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council, Art. 7, first para.)

Summary

$$A Turkish national, who was authorised to enter a Member State for the purpose of re-uniting the family of a Turkish worker belonging to the legal labour force of that State, has been legally resident there for more than five years and has been in legal employment of various kinds, with interruptions, does not lose the benefit of the rights conferred on him by the second indent of the first paragraph of Article 7 of Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council and, in particular, the right to extend his residence permit in the host Member State, where his residence permit had expired before the date on which he lodged an application to extend it which was refused by the competent national authorities.

( see para. 67 and operative part )