CELEX: C2004/284/01
Language: en
Date: 2004-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 30 September 2004 in Case C-275/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart): Engin Ayaz v Land Baden-Württemberg (EEC-Turkey Association — Freedom of movement for workers — First paragraph of Article 7 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council — Personal scope — Concept of ‘member of the family’ of a Turkish worker duly registered as belonging to the labour force of a Member State — Stepson of such a worker)

20.11.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 284/1
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 30 September 2004
   in Case C-275/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart): Engin Ayaz v Land Baden-Württemberg (1)
   
   (EEC-Turkey Association - Freedom of movement for workers - First paragraph of Article 7 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council - Personal scope - Concept of ‘member of the family’ of a Turkish worker duly registered as belonging to the labour force of a Member State - Stepson of such a worker)
   (2004/C 284/01)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case C-275/02: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart (Germany), made by decision of 11 July 2002, received at the Court on 26 July 2002, in the proceedings between Engin Ayaz and Land Baden-Württemberg — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of: C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, C. Gulmann, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues and R. Schintgen (Rapporteur), and F. Macken, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; R. Grass, Registrar, has given a judgment on 30 September 2004, in which it has ruled:
   The first paragraph of Article 7 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council of 19 September 1980 on the development of the Association, adopted by the Association Council established by the Association Agreement between the European Economic Community and Turkey, is to be interpreted as meaning that a stepson who is under the age of 21 years or is a dependant of a Turkish worker duly registered as belonging to the labour force of a Member State is a member of the family of that worker, for the purposes of that provision, and enjoys the rights conferred on him by that decision, provided that he has been duly authorised to join that worker in the host Member State.
   
      (1)  OJ C 261, 26.10.2002.