3Article 3 of Regulation No 1612/68 makes explicit the principles formulated in Article 39 EC with regard, specifically, to access to employment. Thus Article 3(1) provides that under the regulation‘ provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action or administrative practices of a Member State shall not apply:— where they limit application for and offers of employment, or the right of foreign nationals to take up and pursue employment or subject these to conditions not applicable in respect of their own nationals; or— where, though applicable irrespective of nationality, their exclusive or principal aim or effect is to keep nationals of other Member States away from the employment offered’.
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