Thirty years of free movement of workers in Europe

European Commission Directorate-General For Employment Social Affairs And Inclusion

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Proceedings of the conference, Brussels, 17 to 19 December 1998
Labour market - free movement of workers
Social protection and social security
Fundamental rights

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-EMPLOYMENT_SOCIAL-AFFAIRS-AND-INCLUS
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Thirty years of free movement
of workers in Europe
Proceedings of the conference
Brussels, 17 to 19 December 1998
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European Université catholique de Louvain
Commission Department of International Law Thirty years of free movement
of workers in Europe
Proceedings of the conference
Brussels, 17 to 19 December 1998
Edited by
Jean-Yves Carlier and Michel Verwilghen
European Commission Université catholique de Louvain
Diectorate-General for Department of International Law
Employment and Social Affairs
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Printed in Belgium TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents 3
Abbreviations - Citations 5
Jean-Yves CARLIER and Michel VERW1LGHEN
Foreword 7
Odile QUINTIN
Introduction 9
Part One
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROSPECTS
Introductory Reports
David O'KEEFFE
Freedom of movement for workers in Community lav), accomplishments and prospects 19
Francis G. JACOBS
Case law of the Court on free movement of workers 33
Jean-Yves CARLIER
Proportionality and citize?isbip hi relation to the free movement of persons 41
Part Two
THE ISSUES
Committee 1: Who can be considered as a worker?
Christine DENYS
Summary report 63
Blanca VILA COSTA
The general concept of worker9
Luc MISSON
Tbc sponing side of Commtmity law 7
Mihalis VILARAS
Freedom of movement in the public sector: developments and prospects 8
Committee 2: What rights do workers and their families have?
Marie-Ange MOREAU
Su?mnary report 107
Håkan STOOR
Social rights of workers and citizens 115
Lucia Serena ROSSI
The taxation aspects of the free movement of persons 12
Bernd SCHULTE
Pensions and social security 143 Committee 3: What right of residence?
Elspeth GUILD
Summary report 161
Michèle BONNECHÈRE
The right of residence in the context of freedom of movement in the community:
a questionable model5
Maria Luísa DUARTE
Righis of residence of community workers and derogations :
reflections on the meaning of "worker-citizen" 177
Bent GREVE
The right to remain of non-workers, including the right to remain for retired persons 19
Committee 4: What rights for third country nationals?
Hagen LICHTENBERG
Summary report 203
Kees GROENENDIJK
The growing relevance of Article 39 (ex 48) EC Treaty for third country immigrants 207
Rudolf FEIK
Labour and social non-discrimination provisions within the Association agreements 225
Julia ONSLOW-COLE
The right of establishment and provision of services : Community employers
and third country nationals 241
Part Three
ROUND TABLE
European Citizenship
Catherine WIHTOL de WENDEN
European citizenship and freedom of movement 253
Melchior WATHELET
European citizenship and freedom of movement in case law 26
Bruno NASCIMBENE
Citizenship of the Union, national competence and Community competence 27
Kay HAILBRONNER
European Union and Union citizenship: umbrella terms? 281
Anders KRUSE
What will be the concrete meaning of citizenship? The Nordic experience7
CONCLUSIONS
Odile QUINTIN
Conclusions 293
Bibliography7 ABBREVIATIONS
Accord d'association A. Ass.
Association agreement Ass. Α.
Accord européen A.E.
affaire äff.
article art.
Cahiers de droit européen CD.E.
Traité instituant la Communauté européenne CE.
Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier C.E.C.A. é économique européenne C.E.E.
ou/or Central and Eastern Europe
Convention européenne de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme C.E.D.H.
et des libertés fondamentales
C.J.C.E. Cour de justice des Communautés européennes
Clunet Journal de droit international
CM LR Common Market Law Report
CML Rev. n Market Law Review
DG Direction générale ­ Directorate General
EA Europe agreements
EC Treaty establishing the European Community
ECHR European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms
ECJ European Court of Justice
ECR n Court Reports
ECSC European Coal and Steel Community
EEA n Economic Area
EEC European c Community
EEE Espace économique européen
EL Rev. European Law Review
EURES n Employment Services
EU European Union
J.O.C.E. Journal officiel des Communautés européennes
J.T.D.E. Journal des Tribunaux. Droit européen
OJ Officiai Journal of the European Communities
O.C.D.E. Organisation pour la coopération et le développement
économique
OECD Organization for Economie Cooperation and Development
P· page
pt./pts. point/points
op. cit. opus citatum
PECO Pays d'Europe centrale et orientale
R.D.E. Revue du droit des étrangers (Belgique)
Ree. Recueil des arrêts de la Cour de justice des Communautés
européennes R.F.D. Adm. Revue française de droit administratif
R.M.C.e du Marché Commun
R.M.U.e du Marché Unique Européen
R.T.D.E.e trimestrielle de droit européen
Rev. March. Com. et de l'U.E. Revue du Marché commun et de l'Union européenne
TEU Treaty on European Union
T.U.E. Traité sur l'Union européenne
U.E.F.A. Union européenne de football association
U.E.ne
v. versus
YEL Yearbook of European Law
CITATIONS
References in the various presentations have been made as
consistent as possible.
References to the Treaty establishing the European Community
have been complicated by the new numbering introduced in the
consolidated version. This came into force on 1 May 1999 with the
Treaty of Amsterdam. However, the case law quoted here
necessarily refers to the previous numbering. With a view to the
future clarity and readability of these papers, we have used the
new numbering throughout, including the quotations. The former
number is included in brackets as follows: Article 39 (ex 48) EC.
As regards case law, references to judgments handed down by
the Court of Justice of the European Communities have also been
made consistent. The full names of the parties involved in each
case are given, as is the reference to its publication in the Repo?ts of
Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance (ECR).
The reference to the Report is followed by a reference to
"CARLIER-VERWILGHEN, I, II or III" and a page number if the
judgment is included in CARLIER J.Y. AND VERWILGHEN M.,
Free Movement of Workers in the European Community, Casebook of
Judgments of the European Court of Justice, Brussels, Bruylant, 1998
(published in both English and French). These publications were
provided to conference participants and will help them readily to
look up both the English and French versions of the decisions. FOREWORD
This volume contains the proceedings of the European
conference held in Brussels from 17 to 19 December 1998 on the
subject of Thirty Years of Free Movement of Workers in Europe.
Why Thirty Years when Article 39 (ex 48) of the Treaty of Rome
already provided for the free movement of workers as early as
1957? Because this freedom did not actually come about until 15
October 1968, when two acts constituting the required secondary
legislation were passed. These were Regulation 1612/68 on
freedom of movement for workers, and Directive 68/360 on the
abolition of restrictions on movement and residence within the
Community for workers of Member States and their families.
Since then, new legislation and case law have expanded this right
from the free movement of workers to the free movement of
persons. Case law has played an important role, pushed forward by
the determination - even the stubbornness - workers and
individuals have shown to exercise their rights. Before the
Maastricht Treaty of 1992, such citizens performed a public
service. Is that not sufficient reason to identify them fully - first
and last name - when referring to court judgments? And why not
acknowledge, by giving the full name of the defendant, that it is not
only national, regional or local government bodies which are
impeding this freedom, but also social security authorities and
private groups?
Attempting to summarise here the various papers presented
would be doing them an injustice. They deserve to be read in full.
But there is a common thread running through the writers' papers
and the case law. The conflict between the interests of
individuals, who hope that t