Judgment_paragraph 62 · CG v The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland (C-709/20)

62In the present case, as regards, in the first place, the provisions that are relevant in order to answer the referring court’s questions, it should be observed that Article 20(1) TFEU confers on any person holding the nationality of a Member State the status of citizen of the Union and that that status is destined to be the fundamental status of nationals of the Member States, enabling those among such nationals who find themselves in the same situation to enjoy, within the scope ratione materiae of the FEU Treaty, the same treatment in law irrespective of their nationality, subject to such exceptions as are expressly provided for in that regard (judgment of 11 November 2014, Dano, C‑333/13, EU:C:2014:2358, paragraphs 57 and 58 and the case-law cited).