Judgment_paragraph 22 · Adzo Domenyo Alokpa and Others v Ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de l’Immigration (C-86/12)

22In that regard, it should be recalled that any rights conferred on third-country nationals by the Treaty provisions on Union citizenship are not autonomous rights of those nationals but rights derived from the exercise of freedom of movement by a Union citizen. The purpose and justification of those derived rights, in particular rights of entry and residence of family members of a Union citizen, are based on the fact that a refusal to allow them would be such as to interfere with freedom of movement by discouraging that citizen from exercising his rights of entry into and residence in the host Member State (see, to that effect, Case C‑87/12 Ymeraga and Ymeraga-Tafarshiku [2013] ECR, paragraph 35 and the case-law cited).