Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:1998:262
Date: 1998-05-28
Language of the case: German
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 — Freedom of movement for 
persons — Workers — Right of Turkish workers to renewal of residence permits — Conditions — 
Worker duly registered as belonging to the Ubour force and in legal employment — Worker pur­
suing an activity designed to assist his integration into the Ubour market and financed by public 
funds — Included 
(Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council, Art. 6(1)) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-1/97 
Article 6(1) of Decision N o 1/80 of the EEC-
Turkey Association Council must be inter­
preted as meaning that a Turkish national who 
has lawfully pursued a genuine and effective 
economic activity in a Member State under an 
unconditional work permit for an uninter­
rupted period of more than one year for the 
same employer, in return for which he received 
the usual remuneration, is a worker duly reg­
istered as belonging to the labour force of 
that Member State and in legal employment 
there within the meaning of that provision. 
In so far as he has available a job with the 
same employer, a Turkish national in that 
situation is thus entitled to demand the renewal 
of his residence permit in the host Member 
State, even if, pursuant to the legislation of 
that Member State, the activity pursued by 
him was restricted to a limited group of per­
sons, was intended to facilitate their integra­
tion into working life and was financed by 
public funds. 
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