Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 May 2017

H.C. Chavez-Vilchez and Others v Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank and Others

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Centrale Raad van Beroep

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Union citizenship — Article 20 TFEU — Access to social assistance and child benefit conditional on right of residence in a Member State — Third-country national responsible for the primary day-to-day care of her minor child, a national of that Member State — Obligation on the third-country national to establish that the other parent, a national of that Member State, is not capable of caring for the child — Refusal of residence possibly obliging the child to leave the territory of the Member State, or the territory of the European Union

Case C-133/15


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
07/07/2017 Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2017:354
10/05/2017 Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2017:354
10/05/2017 Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Application (OJ)
08/05/2015 Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2016:659
08/09/2016 Chavez-Vilchez and Others
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.09 Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union
    1.09.03 Right of entry and of residence
      1.09.03.01 Detailed rules governing the exercise of the right of entry and of residence
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.09 Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union
    1.09.03 Right of entry and of residence
      1.09.03.01 Detailed rules governing the exercise of the right of entry and of residence
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.09 Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union
    1.09.03 Right of entry and of residence
      1.09.03.01 Detailed rules governing the exercise of the right of entry and of residence
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.09 Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union
    1.09.03 Right of entry and of residence
      1.09.03.01 Detailed rules governing the exercise of the right of entry and of residence
1 The legal order of the European Union
  1.09 Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union
    1.09.03 Right of entry and of residence
      1.09.03.01 Detailed rules governing the exercise of the right of entry and of residence


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 18/03/2015

Date of the Opinion

  • 08/09/2016

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

10/05/2017


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 239 from 24.07.2017, p.4

Application: OJ C 178 from 01.06.2015, p.9

Name of the parties

Chavez-Vilchez and Others

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Klaasen, M.A.K.: Bij het vaststellen of er een afgeleid verblijfsrecht bestaat voor de ouder van een minderjarige Unieburger moet rekening worden gehouden met het recht op gezinsleven en het belang van het kind, Administratiefrechtelijke beslissingen ; Rechtspraak bestuursrecht 2017 nº 1566-1568 (NL)
  2. Schrauwen, A.A.M.: Uitspraak Hof van Justitie van de Europese Unie, 10 mei 2017, zaak C-133/15, Chavez-Vilchez e.a. / Raad van bestuur van de Sociale Verzekeringsbank e.a., Nederlands tijdschrift voor Europees recht 2017 p.173-180 (NL)
  3. Monéger, Françoise: Le droit au séjour et aux prestations familiales des parents d'enfants citoyens européens, ressortissants d'États tiers, Revue de droit sanitaire et social 2017 p.671-677 (FR)
  4. Leboeuf, Luc: Arrêt « Chavez-Vilchez » : la nécessaire démonstration du lien de dépendance entre l’enfant mineur citoyen européen et son parent ressortissant de pays tiers, Journal de droit européen 2017 nº 242 p.321-322 (FR)
  5. Rigaux, Anne: Regroupement familial, Europe 2017 Juillet Comm. nº 255 p.25-26 (FR)
  6. Kroeze, H.: Belang van het kind staat centraal in de toepassing van Ruiz Zambrano, S.E.W. : Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht 2017 p.483-485 (NL)
  7. Pfersich, Andreas: Ausweisung eines Flüchtlings wegen Unterstützung der PKK, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 2017 p.459-469 (DE)
  8. Di Comite, Valeria: Derecho de residencia de los progenitores nacionales de terceros Estados e interés superior del niño "europeo". Comentario a la Sentencia del Tribunal de Justicia (Gran Sala) de 10 de mayo de 2017 en el asunto Chávez-Vílchez, Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo 2017 nº 58 p.1041-1058 (ES)
  9. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Leboeuf, Luc: Droit européen des migrations, Journal de droit européen 2018 p.95-110 (FR)
  10. Staiano, Fulvia: Derivative residence rights for parents of Union citizen children under Article 20 TFEU: Chavez-Vilchez', Common Market Law Review 2018 p.225–241 (EN)
  11. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Renaudière, Géraldine: Libre circulation des personnes dans l'Union européenne, Journal de droit européen 2018 p.141-151 (FR)
  12. Peyrl, Johannes: Kinderbetreuungsgeld für Drittstaatsangehörige, die aus der "Kernbestandsdoktrin" des EuGH ein Aufenthaltsrecht ableiten können, Das Recht der Arbeit 2018 p.234-236 (DE)
  13. Van Eijken, Hanneke ; Phoa, Pauline: Ths scope of article 20 TFEU clarified in Chavez-Vilchez : are the fundamental rights of minor EU citizens coming of age ?, European Law Review 2018 Vol.43, N°6 p.949-970 (EN)
  14. Benlolo Carabot, Myriam: VI. Citoyenneté - Cour de justice, gde ch., 10 mai 2017, H. C. Chavez-Vilchez, aff. C-133/15, ECLI:EU:C:2017:354, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2017. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2018, p. 251-254 (FR)
  15. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Renaudière, Géraldine: Libre circulation des personnes dans l'Union européenne, Journal de droit européen 2019 p.166-175 (FR)
  16. Linden, Hanna van der ; Wilde, A.F. Dylano de: Chavez-Vilchez heeft alleen gevolgen voor Nederland en Verenigd Koninkrijk, Asiel en Migrantenrecht 2020 p.226-228 (NL)
  17. Besselsen, Elles A. ; Besten, Mirjam J. den: Vier jaar na Chavez-Vilchez : weinig perspectief op permanent verblijf in Nederland : C-133/15, Asiel en Migrantenrecht 2021 nº 9 p. 464-472 (NL)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Centrale Raad van Beroep - Netherlands

Subject-matter

  • Citizenship of the Union

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Rosas

Advocate General

Szpunar

Language(s) of the Case

  • Dutch

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French