Reports of Cases

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Subject-matter

Request for a preliminary ruling – Verwaltungsgerichtshof – Interpretation of Article 4(5) of Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification (OJ 2003 L 251, p.12) – Legislation of a Member State providing that the sponsor and the spouse have reached the age of 21 years before the spouse may submit an application seeking to join the sponsor

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Directive 2003/86 -A04 : paragraph 3
• Directive 2003/86 -A04P5 : paragraphs 1, 12, 13, 15, 19

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 2003/86 -A04P5

Opinion

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 7 : points 6, 7, 20, 43
  
• TFEU, Article 267 : point 67
  
• Directive 2003/86 : points 2, 7, 20 - 25, 42, 44, 58, 61, 63
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A04 : points 8, 57, 58
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A04P5 : points 9, 19, 28 - 68
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A04P6 : points 35, 53
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A05P2 : points 57, 58
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A05P4 : points 47, 56
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A07P1 : points 24, 55
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A07P1LC : point 24
  
• Directive 2003/86 -A17 : points 26, 50
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -540/03 : points 20, 23, 24
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -376/05 : points 65, 67
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -137/08 : point 67
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -578/08 : points 22 - 26
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -188/10 : point 67
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -84/12 : point 31
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 20/06/2013

Date of the Opinion

• 30/04/2014

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

17/07/2014

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 315 from 15.09.2014, p.18

Application: OJ C 233 from 10.08.2013, p.4

Name of the parties

Noorzia

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Rigaux, Anne ; Simon, Denys: Regroupement familial, Europe 2014 Octobre Comm. nº 10 p.33 (FR)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Verwaltungsgerichtshof - Austria

Subject-matter

• area of freedom, security and justice
  
• - Immigration policy
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Bundesgesetz über die Niederlassung und den Aufenthalt in Österreich (Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz - NAG), Paragraph 2, Abs. 1, No. 9 und Paragraph 46, Abs. 4

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Silva de Lapuerta

Advocate General

Mengozzi

Language(s) of the Case

• German
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• Italian