EU Law - Free Movement of Workers Flashcards
Name at least two cases on obstacles to access employment market
Van Lent; Weigel; Bosman; Graf
Article 21(1) TFEU
EU citizenship added in 1993 - freedom to move and reside in EU
Give two cases on Art.3(1) Reg 492/11
Groener and Las v PSA Antwerp
What is the test in the UK for jobseekers?
They need to be ‘actively seeking work’
What is the down-side of Bettray?
Could exclude disabled people in sheltered employment, and isn’t reintegration into workforce helping achieve Treaty aims?
What did Commission say in guidance doc would probably fall outside the PS test?
Teaching, nursing and non-military research in public establishments
Van Lent
Prohibition on use might preclude FMW
What Article of what Directive states no affect of divorce on EU nationals, and the circumstances where it won’t affect a non-EU national either?
Articles 13(1) and (2) Directive 2004/38
What did Commission say in guidance doc would probably fall within the PS test?
Police, armed forced, judiciary and tax authorities
Article 49 TFEU
Freedom of establishment - FM of self-employed and companies
Groener judgment
Justified as stimulated support of language
What case departed from restrictive view of Article 7(2) Reg 492/11 in Michel S?
Cristin v SNCF
Walrave and Kock
Article 45 applies even if work done outside EU, as long as legal relationship of employment is entered within EU
Article 45 TFEU
Establishes FMW, Direct effect
What case supports social objective of FM law?
Levin v Staatssecretaris Justitie
Van Lent general
Car registered other Member
Steymann v Staatsecretaris general
Plumber in Bhagwan Community
When can an individual no longer rely on Article 32 - 33 Directive 2003/48 to life expulsion order?
More than 3 years after expulsion, not a reasonable period or no material change in circumstances
Justifiability does not mean that the measure is proportionately restrictive on FMW
Gardella
Why was an institutional test rejected in Commission v Belgium?
Fear of immunising large sectors of community from FM
What did the court allow in Lair?
Students could use Article 7(2) to claim social advantages when institution not covered under Art 7(3)
Legal protection against dismissal for disabled limited to nationals
Marsman v Rosskamp
Ziller on public service exception
Most members have adapted national rules to comply with functional approach
When were the Internal Market Provisions?
1957
How do the ECJ try to interpret Article 45(4)?
Restrictively
Why was ‘offer of employment actually made’ extended in its meaning in R v Immigration Tribunal, ex p Antonissen?
To give effect to the aims of Art.45 and the Treaty in general
Regulation 492/2011
Substantive rights and social advantages
What does Article 30 Directive 2003/48 mean?
People addressed need to understand content and implications of decision, giving full and precise information unless contrary to public security, as well as info on appeals
Article 10 Reg 492/11
Allowing children of migrant to be admitted to education/apprenticeship/vocational courses as if they were a national
Cristin v SNCF
Departed from restrictive view of Article 7(2) Reg 492/11 - all social and tax advantages
Give at least two cases on direct discrimination
Commission v Italy; Marsman v Rosskamp; Schiebel Aircraft GmbH
Even in the process of divorce, non-working spouses do not lose right of residence until formally dissolved
Diatta
What precedents did Article 27(2) Directive 2003/48 codify?
Adoui and Cornvaille; Calfa; Bouchereau
What case required ‘sufficiently close link’ for Article 45 to apply to professional activities outside EU
Petersen
What does Article 28 give in terms of protection?
Both substantive and procedural protections - 3 levels of protection and factors courts should have regard to
‘Advantage’ for Article 7(2) Reg 492/22 is not by reason primarily of his status as a worker
Ministère public v Even
Article 46
allows P and Council to adopt secondary legislation to bring about freedoms in Article 45
What kind of effect does Article 45 TFEU have?
Direct
What case suggested relationship of subordination is needed to distinguish Article 45 from self-employment under Article 48?
Jany v Staatssecretaris
Petersen
Article 45 applies to professional activities outside EU as long as relationship had ‘sufficiently close link’ with EU
Only duties of management/advising State on technical/scientific questions qualified as public employment
Commission v Italy
Irrelevant if C ‘abused’ EU rights to gain ‘worker’ status
Ninn-Oraschi
Collins on Art.45
Job-seekers only benefit from certain provisions, although equal treatment in access to employment should include right to apply for job-seekers allowance under same rules as national
Worker includes those supplementing wage below subsistence with social security
Kempf
Coonan on public service
Not a foreign language assistant at a university
What Article added EU citizenship, and to what Treaty?
Article 21(1) TFEU
R v Immigration Tribunal, ex p Antonissen general
Drug offence
What Regulation specifically restricts Article 45 and how?
Regulation 492/2011 - restricters ‘worker’ to someone who is a national of a Member
The Citizenship Directive is what Directive?
Directive 2004/38
Article 10 Reg 492/11 applied to ‘any general measures intended to facilitate educational attendance’
Casagrande
Chambermaid
Levin
Las v PSA Antwerp general
Flanders contracts in Dutch
Article 28 Directive 2003/48
Expulsion
Plumber in Bhagwan Community
Steymann v Staatsecretaris
O’Keefe on public service exception
Thought Maastricht Treaty’s emphasis on traditional notion of loyalty might reduce importance of exception, but still regular infringement proceedings are brought
Article 10 Reg 492/11 applied to those over 21 and non-dependent to let them complete their studies
Gaal
Accepted right to negotiate collective agreements as part of justification for FM restriction, but needed to comply with non-discrimination
Erny
Rockler
Unacceptable justification for restriction of FM if purely on economic grounds
Basic outline of rights given in Directive 2004/38
Rights of permanent residence for EU nationals and families after 5 years residence, initial right of entry and residence for up to 3 months and possible extension
What case suggested HDE of Article 45?
Bosman
What did the case of Bosman make clear?
Obstacles to access are not comparable to rules on SAs
What part of Directive 2003/48 covers public health?
Article 29
What are the three levels of protection given in Directive 2003/48, and what are they protecting against?
General level for EU individuals, enhanced for individuals with right of permanent residence and super-enhanced for minors or host state residents of more than 10 years - protecting against expulsion
Steymann v Staatsecretaris judgment
Took Lawrie further - quid pro quo work for Community, services he received in return. Conventionally unpaid work may still be effective economic activity
Adoui and Cornvaille
Not ‘sufficiently serious’ if host does not have effective measures to combat same conduct by nationals
What does a disease need to be to count under Article 29?
Of ‘epidemic potential’ as defined by WHO or other disease subject to protection provisions by Member
Commission v Belgium public service judgment
Two stage test - (1) ‘direct or indirect participation in exercise of powers conferred by public law’ and (2) duty ‘designed to safeguard the general interests of the state’/public authorities
Collins general
Employment 17 years ago
Levin on worker
Included part-time and paid work
Sotgiu may also apply to obstacles to MA
Bosman
R v Immigration Tribunal, ex p Antonissen judgment
Extended ‘offer of employment actually made’ and rejected literal interpretation of Art.45
What Article of what measure codifies previous case law on the requirements of restrictions imposed on Article 45 TFEU?
Article 27(2) Directive 2003/48
MRAX
Member needs to give EU national without relevant docs every opportunity to obtain them/prove right of residence
Who is Article 45 TFEU primarily directed towards?
Members
When can there no longer be expulsion under Article 29?
3 months after arriving
Hoekstra on ‘worker’
Autonomous concept - someone who ‘pursues employment activities which are effective and genuine’ and not purely ‘marginal and ancillary’
What case suggests a relaxation of the rehab idea from Bettray?
Fenoll
Lawrie-Blum general
Trainee teacher
How did Bosman broaden address of Article 45 TFEU?
Includes bodies who determine general labour market rules
Prohibition on use might preclude FMW and be an obstacle to access employment market
Van Lent
What section of what measure elaborates on Members right to impose restrictions on Article 45(3) TFEU?
Articles 27 - 33 Directive 2003/48
Weigel general
Negative tax consequences
What case took an objective interpretation of ‘genuine and effective economic activity’?
Lawrie-Blum
Angonese
Private employers can’t discriminate on grounds of nationality
Directie 2014/54 general
Enforcement - reducing gap between theory and reality
When considered proportionality, what case directs court to look to nature and seriousness of offence, length of residence, family circumstances and period since commission of offence?
Orfanopoulos
Gaal
Article 10 Reg 492/11 applied to those over 21 and non-dependent to let them complete their studies
What Directive demands better provision of info about rights under Article 45 TFEU and Regulation 492/2011
Directive 2014/54
Article 45 applies to professional activities outside EU as long as relationship had ‘sufficiently close link’ with EU
Petersen
No reliance on Art.45 when all elements of the case are purely internal
Saunders
Metock judgment
Unlawful to require non-EU national to reside elsewhere lawfully before residence in host
Equal access to training in vocational schemes and retraining centres
Article 7(3) Reg 492/11
Spouse can employ another spouse as worker
CPM Meeusen v Hoofddirectie
Extended ‘offer of employment actually made’ and rejected literal interpretation of Art.45
R v Immigration Tribunal, ex p Antonissen
Directive On rights of movement and residence of EU workers
Directive 2004/38
Commission v Italy judgment
Only Italian security firms hiring Italian nationals could hire out private security guards
Commission v Italy general
Private security guards
Article 7(2) Regulation 492/2011
Provides some tax and social advantages
Deportation, refusal of entry or revocation of right of residence is a disproportionate penalty for non-satisfaction of formalities
Watson and Belmann on Directive 2003/48
Colegio de Oficiales de la Marina Mercante Espanola v Administracion del Estado
Sporadic exercise of public powers didn’t count as public service
Terhoeve
Worker employed in another member then returning to origin can invoke Article 45
Article 18 TFEU
Subsidiarity general principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality
Ministère Public v Even judgment
No discrimination or ‘social advantage’ - advantage is not by reason primarily of his status as a worker
Watson and Belmann on Directive 2003/48
Deportation, refusal of entry or revocation of right of residence is a disproportionate penalty for non-satisfaction of formalities
What case took a restrictive interpretation of Art 7(3) Reg 492/11?
Lair
Weigel judgment
No obstacle to access employment market if there is deterrence without discrimination
Nurse in private hospital didn’t count as public service
Commission v France
What two secondary legislation instruments permit FM of even non-economically active individuals?
FMW Regulation 492/2011 and Directive 2004/38
Diatta
Even in the process of divorce, non-working spouses do not lose right of residence until formally dissolved
Need to be ‘part of the normal labour market’
Trojani
What is the social objective of FM law?
Improving living conditions so EU nationals can follow work and ‘ever closer union of peoples’
What is Article 45 TFEU seen as?
Specific application of general principle in Article 18 TFEU
What are the three derogations allowed under Article 45 TFEU?
On grounds of public policy, public security or health
Who thought Metock might politically be the straw that broke the camel’s back, despite legal justification?
Currie
Where is the basic legislation for FMW?
Under Regulation 492/2011
What case showed court decides what is ‘employment in public service’?
Sutgiu
What kind of relationship did Commission v Belgium demand for public service exception?
‘Special relationship of allegiance to the State’
Gardella
Justifiability does not mean that the measure is proportionately restrictive on FMW
What report embraced the idea of neoclassical economics on FM law?
Spaak Report
Satiable Aircraft GmbH judgment
National security to justify but disproportionate and unnecessary
What post did they explicitly include inside public service exception in Commission v Belgium?
State Ministers
What part of Directive 2003/48 covers notification of decisions?
Article 30
Practice of sport falls within EU in so far as it constitutes economic activity
Walrave
Articles 32 - 33 Directive 2003/48
Duration of exclusion orders and expulsion
Article 29 Directive 2003/48
Public health
Kempf
Worker includes those supplementing wage below subsistence with social security
Fenoll
Considered French disabled person working in disability rehab centre to be a worker, not a user
Saint-Prix general
Left 3 months prior to giving birth, back 3 months after
Metock general
Non-EU national, reside lawfully in other Member
Article 45 is directly applicable and renders contrary national law inapplicable
Commission v French Republic