CELEX: 62021CN0637
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Case C-637/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Netherlands) lodged on 18 October 2021 — K.R.; Other party: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid

17.1.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 24/19
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Netherlands) lodged on 18 October 2021 — K.R.; Other party: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid
      (Case C-637/21)
      (2022/C 24/25)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Raad van State
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: K.R.
      
         Other party to the proceedings: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Must Article 16(4) of Directive 2004/38/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC be interpreted as meaning that any presence in the host Member State, however brief, of an EU citizen with a right of permanent residence, is sufficient to interrupt a period of absence exceeding two consecutive years?
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  If the answer to the first question is in the negative, what factors should be taken into account in determining whether a presence in the host Member State by such an EU citizen interrupts a period of absence from the host Member State exceeding two consecutive years? In that regard, is it relevant whether the EU citizen concerned relocated the centre of her interests to another Member State?
               
            
         (1)  OJ 2004 L 158, p. 77.