Judgment_paragraph 62 · H.C. Chavez-Vilchez and Others v Raad van bestuur van de Sociale verzekeringsbank and Others (C-133/15)

62On the other hand, the Treaty provisions on citizenship of the Union do not confer any autonomous right on third-country nationals. Any rights conferred on third-country nationals are not autonomous rights of those nationals but rights derived from those enjoyed 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, in particular, with a Union citizen’s freedom of movement (judgments of 13 September 2016, Rendón Marín, C‑165/14, EU:C:2016:675, paragraphs 72 and 73, and of 13 September 2016, CS, C‑304/14, EU:C:2016:674, paragraphs 27 and 28 and the case-law cited).