CELEX: 62017CA0246
Language: en
Date: 2018-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-246/17: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 27 June 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — Belgium) — Ibrahima Diallo v État belge (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Citizens of the European Union — Directive 2004/38/EC — Article 10(1) — Application for a residence card as a family member — Issuance — Time limit — Adoption and notification of the decision — Consequences of non-compliance with the period — Procedural autonomy of Member States — Principle of effectiveness)

201808030462050182018/C 294/132462017CJC29420180820EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL20180627101121Case C-246/17: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 27 June 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — Belgium) — Ibrahima Diallo v État belge (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Citizens of the European Union — Directive 2004/38/EC — Article 10(1) — Application for a residence card as a family member — Issuance — Time limit — Adoption and notification of the decision — Consequences of non-compliance with the period — Procedural autonomy of Member States — Principle of effectiveness)
 ---documentbreak--- C2942018EN1010120180627EN0013101112Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 27 June 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — Belgium) — Ibrahima Diallo v État belge
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   ‛(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Citizens of the European Union — Directive 2004/38/EC — Article 10(1) — Application for a residence card as a family member — Issuance — Time limit — Adoption and notification of the decision — Consequences of non-compliance with the period — Procedural autonomy of Member States — Principle of effectiveness)’2018/C 294/13Language of the case: French
      Referring court
   
   Conseil d’État
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ibrahima Diallo
   
      Defendant: État belge
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
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            Article 10(1) of Directive 2004/38/EC 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, must be interpreted as meaning that the decision on the application for a residence card of a family member of a Union citizen must be adopted and notified within the period of six months laid down in that provision.
         
      
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            Directive 2004/38 must be interpreted as precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which requires competent national authorities to issue automatically a residence card of a family member of a European Union citizen to the person concerned, where the period of six months, referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive 2004/38, is exceeded, without finding, beforehand, that the person concerned actually meets the conditions for residing in the host Member State in accordance with EU law.
         
      
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            EU law must be interpreted as precluding national case-law, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, under which, following the judicial annulment of a decision refusing to issue a residence card of a family member of a Union citizen, the competent national authority automatically regains the full period of six months referred to in Article 10(1) of Directive 2004/38.
         
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      )	OJ C 231, 17.7.2017.