Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:1998:344
Date: 1998-07-09
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 — Association Council estab­
lished by the EEC-Turkey Association Agreement — Decision concerning freedom of movement 
for workers — Access to employment for children of Turkish workers — Conditions — Legal 
employment or residence of one of the parents in the host Member State at the time of gaining 
access to the employment market — Not a condition 
(Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council, Art. 7, second para.) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-210/97 
The second paragraph of Article 7 of Deci­
sion No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association 
Council must be interpreted to the effect that 
a Turkish national who is the child of a 
migrant Turkish worker, who has been autho­
rised to enter a Member State for the purpose 
of pursuing a course of study and who, on 
completion of that training, applies for a resi­
dence permit in order to be able to take up 
an offer of employment made to him in the 
host Member State, is entitled to respond to 
any offer of employment in the host Member 
State after having completed a course of voca­
tional training there, and consequently to be 
issued with a residence permit, when one of 
his parents has in the past been legally 
employed in that State for at least three years. 
However, it is not required that the parent in 
question should still work or be resident in 
the Member State in question at the time 
when his child wishes to gain access to the 
employment market there. 
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