CELEX: 62018CA0380
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-380/18: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 12 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid v E.P. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Border controls, asylum and immigration — Regulation (EU) 2016/399 — Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) — Article 6 — Entry conditions for third-country nationals — Concept of ‘threat to public policy’ — Return decision issued to an illegally staying third-country national)

17.2.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 54/3
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 12 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid v E.P.
      (Case C-380/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Border controls, asylum and immigration - Regulation (EU) 2016/399 - Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) - Article 6 - Entry conditions for third-country nationals - Concept of ‘threat to public policy’ - Return decision issued to an illegally staying third-country national)
      (2020/C 54/04)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Raad van State
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid
      
         Respondent: E.P.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 6(1)(e) of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and 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 not precluding a national practice under which the competent authorities may issue a return decision to a third-country national not subject to a visa requirement, who is present on the territory of the Member States for a short stay, on the basis of the fact that that national is considered to be a threat to public policy because he or she is suspected of having committed a criminal offence, provided that that practice is applicable only if, first, the offence is sufficiently serious, in the light of its nature and of the punishment which may be imposed, to justify that national’s stay on the territory of the Member States being brought to an immediate end and, second, those authorities have consistent, objective and specific evidence to support their suspicions, matters which are for the referring court to establish.
      
         (1)  OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.