CELEX: 62018CA0341
Language: en
Date: 2020-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-341/18: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 5 February 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid v J. and Others (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EU) 2016/399 — Schengen Borders Code — Control at the external borders — Third-country nationals — Article 11(1) — Affixing of stamps on travel documents — Exit stamp — Determination of the time of exit from the Schengen area — Signing-on of seamen with ships that are in long-term mooring in a sea port)

27.4.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 137/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 5 February 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid v J. and Others
      (Case C-341/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EU) 2016/399 - Schengen Borders Code - Control at the external borders - Third-country nationals - Article 11(1) - Affixing of stamps on travel documents - Exit stamp - Determination of the time of exit from the Schengen area - Signing-on of seamen with ships that are in long-term mooring in a sea port)
      (2020/C 137/09)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Raad van State
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid
      
         Defendants: J. and Others
      
         Interveners: C. and H. and Others
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 11(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) must be interpreted as meaning that, when a seaman who is a third-country national signs on with a ship in long-term mooring in a sea port of a State forming part of the Schengen area, for the purpose of working on board, before leaving that port on that ship, an exit stamp must, where provided for by that code, be affixed to that seaman’s travel documents not at the time of his signing on, but when the master of that ship notifies the competent national authorities of the ship’s imminent departure.
      
         (1)  OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.