Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 February 2009.

Mehmet Soysal and Ibrahim Savatli v Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg - Germany.

EEC-Turkey Association Agreement - Freedom to provide services - Visa requirement for admission to the territory of a Member State.

Case C-228/06.


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
18/04/2009 Soysal and Savatli
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2009:101
19/02/2009 Soysal and Savatli
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2009:101
19/02/2009 Soysal and Savatli
Application (OJ)
12/08/2006 Soysal and Savatli
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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

Systematic classification scheme

1.
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-25 International agreements
    B-25.04 Effects. Scope and limits
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-25 International agreements
    B-25.05 The various agreements concluded by the Community
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-25 International agreements
    B-25.04 Effects. Scope and limits
B European Community (EEC/EC)
  B-25 International agreements
    B-25.05 The various agreements concluded by the Community


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

Information not available


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 19/05/2006

Date of the Opinion

Information not available

Date of the hearing

Information not available

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

  1. 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)
  2. Kauff-Gazin, Fabienne: Primauté des accords internationaux, Europe 2009 Avril Comm. nº 143 p.9 (FR)
  3. Hailbronner, Kay: Visafreiheit für türkische Staatsangehörige?, Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 2009 p.760-766 (DE)
  4. Dienelt, Klaus: Auswirkungen der Soysal-Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs auf das Visumverfahren türkischer Staatsangehöriger, Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 2009 p.182-188 (DE)
  5. 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)
  6. Tsoli, Eirini: Elliniki Epitheorisi Evropaïkou Dikaiou 2009 p.241-243 (EL)
  7. 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)
  8. Groenendijk, Kees: Commentaar bij de brief van de ministers, Asiel en Migrantenrecht 2011 p.30-31 (NL)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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

Information not available

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

  • German

Language(s) of the Opinion

    Information not available