CELEX: 62013CA0491
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-491/13: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Germany)) — Mohamed Ali Ben Alaya v Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2004/114/EC — Articles 6, 7 and 12 — Conditions of admission of third-country nationals for the purposes of studies — Refusal to admit a person who meets the conditions laid down in Directive 2004/114 — Discretion enjoyed by the competent authorities)

17.11.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 409/18
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 September 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Germany)) — Mohamed Ali Ben Alaya v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
   (Case C-491/13) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Area of freedom, security and justice - Directive 2004/114/EC - Articles 6, 7 and 12 - Conditions of admission of third-country nationals for the purposes of studies - Refusal to admit a person who meets the conditions laid down in Directive 2004/114 - Discretion enjoyed by the competent authorities))
   2014/C 409/25
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgericht Berlin
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Mohamed Ali Ben Alaya
   
      Defendant: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 12 of Council Directive 2004/114/EC of 13 December 2004 on the conditions of admission of third-country nationals for the purposes of studies, pupil exchange, unremunerated training or voluntary service must be interpreted as meaning that the Member State concerned is obliged to admit to its territory a third-country national who wishes to stay for more than three months in that territory for study purposes, where that national meets the conditions for admission exhaustively listed in Articles 6 and 7 of that directive and provided that that Member State does not invoke against that person one of the grounds expressly listed by the directive as justification for refusing a residence permit.
   
      (1)  OJ C 344, 23.11.2013.