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Relu Adrian Coman and Others v. Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări and Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (C.J.E.U.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2019

Alina Tryfonidou
Alina Tryfonidou*
Affiliation:
Alina Tryfonidou is Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Reading, UK.
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On June 5, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) delivered its judgment in the case of Coman. In this important ruling, the Court made it clear that under EU law, the same-sex spouse of an EU citizen can move and reside with the latter in the territory of another EU member state, just as the opposite-sex spouse of an EU citizen can. Although the case is very important in that it was the first time the Court has recognized that same-sex marriages must be treated in exactly the same way as opposite-sex marriages for a specific legal purpose (family reunification rights of EU citizens who exercise EU free movement rights), it creates a number of new questions and highlights a number of gaps that persist even following its delivery.

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International Legal Documents
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 823 - 836
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law 

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ENDNOTES

1 Case C-673/16, Coman v. Inspectoratul General pentru Imigrări (June 5, 2018), http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=202542&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=10011315 [hereinafter Coman].

2 Consolidated Versions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union art. 20, 2010 O.J. (C83), 2012 O.J. (C326).

3 Council Directive 2004/38, 2004 O.J. (L 158) 77.

4 Case C-370/90, The Queen v. Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Surinder Singh, 1992 E.C.R. I-4265; Case C-291/05, Minister voor Vreemdelingenzaken en Integratie v. R. N. G. Eind, 2007 E.C.R. I-10719.

5 Case C-456/12, O. and B. v. Minister voor Immigratie, Integratie en Asiel, ¶ 50 (Mar. 12, 2014), http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=149082&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=127675 [hereinafter O. and B.].

6 Coman, supra note 1, ¶¶ 18–23, 25.

7 Id. at 24.

8 O. and B., supra note 5, ¶ 59.

9 Coman, supra note 1, ¶ 37.

10 Id. ¶ 38.

11 Id. ¶ 40.

12 Id. ¶¶ 41–50.

13 Id. ¶¶ 45–46.

14 Council Directive 2003/86, 2003 O.J. (L 251) 12, art. 4.