Conference paper
RIGHT OF THE EEA CITIZENS AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES WITHIN THE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK VS. MOBILITY
Tihana Marković
; Centar za poduzetništvo Osijek
Abstract
EEA was founded in 1994 aiming to expand the provisions of the EU in regard of internal market on the EFTA area. It consists of three EFTA member states (Iceland, Switzerland, Norway) and the EU member states. The above mentioned area incorporates four freedoms of internal market emphasizing the freedom of movement in persons, more precisely citizens of the EEA member states and the members of their families. The above mentioned problem area follows a series of legal regulations giving an overview of those, possibly older but for this field the most relevant as well as the latest ones. These are: the International Convention for Protection of Rights of all Worker Migrants and Members of Their Families of 18 December, 1990, the Aliens Act (Official Ga- zette 74/13), Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September, 2003, on the right to family reunification, Directive 2004/38/EC of 29 April, 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States and the latest Di- rective 2014/54/EU of 16 April, 2014, on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers. In spite of well-set, represented legal framework and various strategies, programmes and developed networks, the mobility of workers in the EU is relatively weak as supported by numerous researches and statistics comprised in this paper. The questions about the reasons and nature of the obstacles to free movement (legal and administrative limitations, accomodation, employment, certificate or language barriers) to free movement pose and they cannot be easily answered. In conclusion, the paper comprises the analy- sis of the European Court of Justice judgment in case C 456/12 of 12 March, 2014.
Keywords
EEA; the European Union; freedom of movement of persons; family reunification; mobility; case-law
Hrčak ID:
132103
URI
Publication date:
30.8.2014.
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