CELEX: 62019CA0720
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-720/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 21 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf — Germany) — GR v Stadt Duisburg (Reference for a preliminary ruling — EEC-Turkey Association Agreement — Decision No 1/80 — Article 7, first paragraph — Right of residence of family members of a Turkish worker legally employed in a Member State — Naturalisation of the family member concerned in the host Member State — Maintenance of the right of residence — Acquired rights)

7.12.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/13
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 21 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf — Germany) — GR v Stadt Duisburg
      (Case C-720/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - EEC-Turkey Association Agreement - Decision No 1/80 - Article 7, first paragraph - Right of residence of family members of a Turkish worker legally employed in a Member State - Naturalisation of the family member concerned in the host Member State - Maintenance of the right of residence - Acquired rights)
      (2020/C 423/20)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: GR
      
         Defendant: Stadt Duisburg
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      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 between the European Economic Community and Turkey must be interpreted as meaning that a member of the family of a Turkish worker who has acquired the rights laid down under that provision shall not lose the benefit of those rights when he or she acquires the nationality of the host Member State while losing his or her previous nationality.
      
         (1)  OJ C 19, 20.1.2020.