CELEX: 62018CN0706
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-706/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad voor Vreemdelingenbetwistingen (Belgium) lodged on 14 November 2018 — X v Belgische Staat

28.1.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/11
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad voor Vreemdelingenbetwistingen (Belgium) lodged on 14 November 2018 — X v Belgische Staat
      (Case C-706/18)
      (2019/C 35/14)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Raad voor Vreemdelingenbetwistingen
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: X
      
         Defendant: Belgische Staat
      
         Question referred
      
      Does Directive 2003/86/EC (1) — having regard to Article 3(5), as well as the objective thereof, in particular, the determination of the conditions for the exercise of the right to family reunification — preclude national legislation which requires that Article 5(4) of Directive 2003/86/EC be interpreted as meaning that the consequence of no decision having been taken by the expiry of the prescribed period is that national authorities are under an obligation to grant, of their own motion, a residence permit to the person concerned, without first establishing that that person in fact satisfies the conditions for residence in Belgium in conformity with EU law?
      
         (1)  Council Directive of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification (OJ 2003 L 251, p. 12).