Judgment_paragraph 35 · Kreshnik Ymeraga and Others v Ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de l’Immigration (C-87/12)

35Any 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 are based on the fact that a refusal to allow them would be such as to interfere with the Union citizen’s freedom of movement by discouraging him from exercising his rights of entry into and residence in the host Member State (Iida, paragraphs 67 and 68).