Judgment_paragraph 1 · BY and Others v Stadt Duisburg (C-194/20)

1This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of the first sentence of Article 9 of Decision No 1/80 of the Association Council of 19 September 1980 on the development of the Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey, read in conjunction with Articles 6 and 7 of that decision. The Association Council was set up by the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and Turkey, signed in Ankara on 12 September 1963 by the Republic of Turkey, of the one part, and by the Member States of the EEC and the Community, of the other part, and concluded, approved and confirmed on behalf of the Community by Council Decision 64/732/EEC of 23 December 1963 (JO 1964, 217, p. 3685; ‘the Association Agreement’).