22In order to provide a useful reply to those questions it is necessary to consider, first of all, the case-law which provides that the first sentence of Article 7 of Decision No 1/80 applies to the situation of a Turkish national who, as a member of the family of a Turkish worker who is or was duly registered as belonging to the legal labour force of the host Member State, has either been authorised to join that worker to reunite the family or was born and has always resided in that State. The applicability of the first sentence of Article 7 to that type of situation is independent of the fact that, at the time of the proceedings, the person concerned is an adult no longer living with his family, but living independently and working in the Member State concerned (see, to that effect, Case C-329/97 Ergat [2000] ECR I-1487, paragraphs 26 and 27, and Case C-467/02 Cetinkaya [2004] ECR I-10895, paragraph 34).
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