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<p>The paper presents a critical discussion of the CJEU judgment in the JZ case (C 806/18), in which the Court interpreted Article 11 of Directive 2008/115 that regulates entry ban issuance. The author asks a question of whether an entry ban as a measure limiting the right to free movement has a moral and legal ground in international law and EU law. Moreover, the author focuses on the problem of the criminalisation of irregular migration – both in the context of the established line of the Court’s case law and in the case of a vague national law standard that penalizes illegal stays – the possibility to apply the criminal law concept of error in law and thus exclusion of criminal liability of an illegal migrant.</p>
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The paper presents a critical discussion of the CJEU judgment in the JZ case (C 806/18), in which the Court interpreted Article 11 of Directive 2008/115 that regulates entry ban issuance. The author asks a question of whether an entry ban as a measure limiting the right to free movement has a moral and legal ground in international law and EU law. Moreover, the author focuses on the problem of the criminalisation of irregular migration – both in the context of the established line of the Court’s case law and in the case of a vague national law standard that penalizes illegal stays – the possibility to apply the criminal law concept of error in law and thus exclusion of criminal liability of an illegal migrant.

Has the CJEU Made the First Step to Put a Stop to the Criminalisation of Migration? Commentary to the Judgement in the Case of JZ in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The paper presents a critical discussion of the CJEU judgment in the JZ case (C 806/18), in which the Court interpreted Article 11 of Directive 2008/115 that...

Has the CJEU Made the First Step to Put a Stop to the Criminalisation of Migration? Commentary to the Judgement in the Case of JZ in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2021

Páginas: 207 - 224

Recibido: 01 jul 2021

Aceptado: 30 sept 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2021.26.06.12

Palabras clave
COVID-19 pandemic, criminalisation of migration, Directive 2008/115, entry ban, irregular migration, return policy

© 2020 Anna Magdalena Kosińska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Has the CJEU Made the First Step to Put a Stop to the Criminalisation of Migration? Commentary to the Judgement in the Case of JZ in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2021

Páginas: 207 - 224

Recibido: 01 jul 2021

Aceptado: 30 sept 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2021.26.06.12

Palabras claveCOVID-19 pandemic, criminalisation of migration, Directive 2008/115, entry ban, irregular migration, return policy

© 2020 Anna Magdalena Kosińska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
COVID-19 pandemic, criminalisation of migration, Directive 2008/115, entry ban, irregular migration, return policy