Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/08/2017

Subject: The Court affirmed that Article 21 TFEU (on freedom of movement and on freedom of residence) precludes the registry office of a Member State from refusing to recognise and enter in the civil register the name legally acquired by a national of that Member State in another Member State, of which he is also a national, and which is the same as his birth name, on the basis of a provision of national law which makes the possibility of having such an entry made, by declaration to the registry office, subject to the condition that that name must have been acquired during a period of habitual residence in that other Member State, unless there are other provisions of national law which effectively allow the recognition of that name

Parties: Freitag

Classification: Citizens’ rights - Art. 45 Freedom of movement - Freedom of residence

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