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Just when we thought we had seen the back of the  2006 EEA Regulations, it appears that  the Court of Appeal is  not  quite yet  done with their interpretation: the  Court  of Appeal is  still having to  grapple  with arguments put forward  that  the UK Government did not  correctly  implement the parent Citizen’s Directive via the 2006 Regulations. In Ahmed v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 99 , the  issue which arose was the correct interpretation of Regulation 10(5) and 10(6) of  the  2006 EEA Regulations. Mr Ahmed sought to establish  an independent right to reside  in the UK as the former spouse of an EU national. He applied for an EEA residence card in January 2014. He  only received a certificate of application in September 2014.  At  the date of the divorce, which became absolute on 19 June 2014, Mr Ahmed’s wife had been working ...

Free movement of persons in the European Economic Area (EEA) – different from the EU? Karin Fløistad : PhD Candidate, European University Institute; practicing lawyer at Norwegian law firm Simonsen Vogt Wiig Free movement of persons continues to be debated in the UK after the Brexit referendum and the EEA Agreement is often referred to regarding the UK's future relationship with the EU.  This post intends to address two differences in the right to free movement of persons in a model of association with the EU outside membership – the EEA Agreement compared to the right to free movement of persons in the EU. The EEA Agreement extends the EU internal market to include three of the parties to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein – but without membership in the Union. The extension of the internal market means, in principle, parallel rights and obligations in the area of free movement (including the right to free movement ...