CELEX: 62020CA0432
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-432/20: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 20 January 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wien — Austria) — ZK (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Immigration policy — Directive 2003/109/EC — Article 9(1)(c) — Loss of the status of long-term resident third-country national — Absence from the territory of the European Union for a period of 12 consecutive months — Interruption of that period of absence — Irregular and short-term stays in the territory of the European Union)

14.3.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 119/13
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 20 January 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Wien — Austria) — ZK
      (Case C-432/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Area of freedom, security and justice - Immigration policy - Directive 2003/109/EC - Article 9(1)(c) - Loss of the status of long-term resident third-country national - Absence from the territory of the European Union for a period of 12 consecutive months - Interruption of that period of absence - Irregular and short-term stays in the territory of the European Union)
      (2022/C 119/17)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgericht Wien
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: ZK
      
         Intervener: Landeshauptmann von Wien
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 9(1)(c) of Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents must be interpreted as meaning that any physical presence of a long-term resident in the territory of the European Union during a period of 12 consecutive months, even if such a presence does not exceed, during that period, a total duration of only a few days, is sufficient to prevent the loss, by that resident, of his or her right to long-term resident status under that provision.
      
         (1)  OJ C 390, 16.11.2020.