Judgment_paragraph 25 · X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-459/20)

25The situations referred to in the preceding paragraph of this judgment have the common feature that, although they are governed by legislation which falls, a priori, within the competence of the Member States, namely by legislation on the right of entry and residence of third-country nationals outside the scope of provisions of EU secondary legislation, which provide for the grant of such a right under certain conditions, those situations nonetheless have an intrinsic connection with the freedom of movement and residence of a Union citizen, which precludes the right of entry and residence from being refused to those nationals in the Member State of residence of that citizen, in order to avoid interference with that freedom (judgment of 10 May 2017, Chavez-Vilchez and Others, C‑133/15, EU:C:2017:354, paragraph 64 and the case-law cited).