Judgment_paragraph 27 · X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-459/20)

27It is also clear from the Court’s case-law that, in the same way as a refusal or loss of a right of residence in the territory of a Member State, a ban on entry into the territory of the European Union, imposed on a third-country national who is a family member of a Union citizen, could lead to depriving that citizen of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights which that status confers upon him or her, where, owing to the relationship of dependency between those persons, that entry ban compels, de facto, that citizen to leave the territory of the European Union as a whole, in order to go with the member of his or her family, the third-country national who is the subject of that ban (judgment of 27 April 2023, M.D.(Ban on entering Hungary), C‑528/21, EU:C:2023:341, paragraph 60 and the case-law cited).