Reports of Cases
2009 I-01031
Subject-matter
Preliminary ruling – Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg – Interpretation of Article 41(1) of the Additional Protocol of 23 November 1970 annexed to the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey (JO 1972 L 293, p. 4) – Validity of Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 of 15 March 2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (OJ 2001 L 81, p. 1) – New restrictions on the freedom to provide services – Obligation imposed on a Turkish national employed as the driver of a lorry by a Turkish transport undertaking to be in possession of a visa in order to be able to enter the territory of a Member State, even though no such obligation existed on the date on which the Additional Protocol entered into force
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
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B European Community (EEC/EC)
B-25 International agreements
B-25.05 The various agreements concluded by the Community
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Citations of case-law or legislation
References in grounds of judgment
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EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 62
: paragraph 53
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EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 68
-P1 : paragraphs 38, 41
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EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 234
: paragraph 41
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Agreement with Third Countries or International Bodies - 21970A1123(01)
: paragraphs 47 - 51, 54, 56, 62
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Agreement with Third Countries or International Bodies - 21970A1123(01)
-A41P1 : paragraphs 1, 37, 40, 43, 45 - 50, 57, 60, 62
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Agreement with Third Countries or International Bodies - 21970A1123(01)
-A59 : paragraph 61
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Decision 64/732
: paragraphs 55, 56
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Regulation 2760/72
: paragraph 1
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Regulation 539/2001
: paragraphs 38, 53
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Regulation 539/2001
-A01P1 : paragraphs 37, 58
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Regulation 539/2001
-C1 : paragraph 53
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Agreement between Member States - 42000A0922(01)
: paragraph 54
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Agreement between Member States - 42000A0922(02)
: paragraph 54
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Court of Justice - Judgment C -192/89
: paragraph 41
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Court of Justice - Judgment C -61/94
: paragraph 59
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Court of Justice - Judgment C -37/98
: paragraphs 45, 47
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Court of Justice - Judgment C -317/01
: paragraphs 45 - 48
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Court of Justice - Judgment C -16/05
: paragraphs 45, 47, 49
Operative part
Opinion
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Dates
Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings
Date of the Opinion
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Date of the hearing
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Date of delivery
19/02/2009
References
Publication in the Official Journal
Application: OJ C 190 from 12.08.2006, p.8
Judgment: OJ C 90 from 18.04.2009, p.2
Name of the parties
Soysal and Savatli
Notes on Academic Writings
- Hecker, Jan: Visumspflicht türkischer Staatsangehöriger; Assoziationsabkommen EWG/Türkei; assoziationsrechtliche Stillhaltepflichten der Mitgliedstaaten und der Europäischen Gemeinschaft in Bezug auf neue Beschränkungen der Niederlassungsfreiheit und des Dienstleistungsverkehrs, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 2009 p.142-143 (DE)
- Kauff-Gazin, Fabienne: Primauté des accords internationaux, Europe 2009 Avril Comm. nº 143 p.9 (FR)
- Hailbronner, Kay: Visafreiheit für türkische Staatsangehörige?, Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2009 p.760-766 (DE)
- Dienelt, Klaus: Auswirkungen der Soysal-Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs auf das Visumverfahren türkischer Staatsangehöriger, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 2009 p.182-188 (DE)
- Welte, Hans-Peter: Die "Soysal-Entscheidung" des Europäischen Gerichtshofs - Kein Signal für eine grundlegende Änderung nationaler Einreisevorschriften, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 2009 p.249-253 (DE)
- Tsoli, Eirini: Elliniki Epitheorisi Evropaïkou Dikaiou 2009 p.241-243 (EL)
- Göçmen, İlke: To Visa or Not to Visa: That Is the (Only) Question, or Is It? - Case C-228/06, Mehmet Soysal and Ibrahim Savatli v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland [2009] ECR I-1031, Legal Issues of Economic Integration 2010 p.149-162 (EN)
- Groenendijk, Kees: Commentaar bij de brief van de ministers, Asiel en Migrantenrecht 2011 p.30-31 (NL)
- Hailbronner, Kay: Das Soysal-Urteil im rechtspolitischen und juristischen Diskurs, Hohenheimer Tage zum Ausländerrecht 2010 (Ed. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden) 2011 p.187-192 (DE)
- Dienelt, Klaus: Das Soysal-Urteil im rechtspolitischen und juristischen Diskurs, Hohenheimer Tage zum Ausländerrecht 2010 (Ed. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden) 2011 p.193-204 (DE)
- Groenendijk, Kees: Soysal und die Visumpolitik der europäischen Staaten gegenüber der Türkei und die Bedeutung der EuGH-Rechtsprechung für Bürger anderer Drittstaaten, Hohenheimer Tage zum Ausländerrecht 2010 (Ed. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden) 2011 p.205-217 (DE)
- Kaya, Gözde: Free movement of Turkish citizens after the Soysal judgment, Turkey and the European Union (Ed. Routledge - London) 2014 p.121-137 (EN)
Procedural Analysis Information
Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling
Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg - Germany
Subject-matter
- Freedom of movement for workers
Provisions of national law referred to
Aufenthaltsgesetz (AufenthG), Paragraphen 4 Abs. 1, und 6 Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz 1995 (AÜG 1995), Paragraph 1 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Verordnung zur Durchführung des Ausländergesetzes (1969), Paragraph 1 Abs. 2 No. 2
Provisions of international law referred to
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Procedure and result
- Reference for a preliminary ruling
Formation of the Court
première chambre (Cour)
Judge-Rapporteur
Kasel
Advocate General
Poiares Maduro
Language(s) of the Case
Language(s) of the Opinion
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