“Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community conferred on the person who was the primary carer of a migrant worker’s or former migrant worker’s child who was attending educational courses in the host member state a right of residence in that state, although the provision could not be interpreted as conferring such a right on the person who was the primary carer of the child of a self-employed person. Article 16(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the member states meant that a European Union citizen who was a national of a member state which had recently acceded to the European Union could, pursuant to that provision, rely on a right of permanent residence where he or she had resided in the host member state for a continuous period of more than five years, part of which had been completed before the accession of the former state to the European Union, provided that the residence was in accordance with the conditions laid down in article 7(1) of Directive 2004/38.”
WLR Daily, 6th September 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
