Translation of "Ressortissant communautaire " (French → English) :

Later on, once the system has been seen to operate well, we can work for the equalisation of the position of all third country nationals who qualify for long-term status, for the reduction of the qualifying period to, say, three instead of five years, and the minimising of the gap between them and EU nationals on matters such as family reunion.

(29) Enjoyment of the resale right should be restricted to Community nationals as well as to foreign authors whose countries afford such protection to authors who are nationals of Member States.

This Recommendation is mainly aimed at Community nationals who would like to experience living in a Member State other than their country of origin. It must also be noted that the European Council confirmed at its special meeting in Tampere on 15 and 16 October 1999 that the European Union must ensure equal treatment for third country nationals who are legally resident in a Member State, and that a Community policy on integration should aim to offer them rights and obligations comparable to those of EU citizens. Third country nationals who are legally and permanently resident in the Community should also benefit from the provisions of the acquis communautaire relating ...[+++]to freedom of movement and equality of treatment and from the provisions of this Recommendation. Similarly, third country nationals who take part in a Community programme such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci or the European Voluntary Service, should benefit from these provisions.

This Recommendation is mainly aimed at Community nationals who would like to experience living in a Member State other than their country of origin. It must also be noted that the European Council confirmed at its special meeting in Tampere on 15 and 16 October 1999 that the European Union must ensure equal treatment for third-country nationals who are legally resident in a Member State, and that a more energetic policy on integration should aim to offer them rights and obligations comparable to those of EU citizens. In this respect legally resident third-country nationals who take part in a Community programme such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci or the European Voluntary Service, should be allowed to benefit from the acquis ...[+++]communautaire in respect of freedom of movement and equality of treatment. Moreover, in its scoreboard, submitted on 27 March 2000, the Commission undertook to submit an initiative on the entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of study and vocational training.

This would imply not only that rules restricting entitlement to legal aid to nationals of the Host State, but also conditions requiring foreign nationals to be resident or even present on the national territory in order to be assimilated to nationals, would be struck at by Art. 12 of the EC Treaty and such conditions could therefore not be invoked against Community nationals involved in litigation in the Host State.

*Lastly, the Court held in the Bickel judgment [5], that the right to use one's own language in criminal proceedings fell within the scope of the EC Treaty, and was thus subject to the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality enunciated in Article 12 (ex- Article 6) of that Treaty, with the result that a Community national involved in criminal proceedings in the Host State (in casu the Bolzano province of Italy) was entitled to use his own language (German) as if he were not merely an Italian national but an Italian national residing in the province of Bolzano, (to whom this privilege was accorded by Italian law) without t ...[+++]he necessity of acquiring the status of a worker in that country or being resident there.