Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:1999:276
Date: 1999-06-03
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Association Agreement;External relations;Free movement of workers
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: Germany

Summary of the Judgment 
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.) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-329/97 
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 inter­
ruptions, 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) 
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