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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny (Poland) lodged on 31 December 2019 — M.A. v Konsul Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w N.

(Case C-949/19)

Language of the case: Polish

Referring court

Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: M.A.

Defendant: Konsul Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w N.

Question referred

Must Article 21(2a) of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 between the Governments of the States of the Benelux Economic Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders 1 in conjunction with the first paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union be interpreted as meaning that a third-country national who has been refused a long-stay visa and who cannot exercise the right to move freely within the territories of the other Member States under Article 21(1) of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement must have the right to an effective remedy before a tribunal?

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1 OJ 2000 L 239, p. 19.