citizen of a member state of the European Union | citizen of an EU member state | EU citizen | European national | EU national | citizen of the Union

citizen of a member state of the European Free Trade Association | citizen of an EFTA member state | Citizen of an EFTA state | EFTA citizen

citizen of a member state of the European Community | citizen of an EC member state | citizen of an EU state | EC citizen

companies which are nationals of another Member State

legal persons which are nationals of another Member State

Dublin Regulation | Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national | Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person

withdrawal from the EU [ Brexit | exit from the European Union | leaving the EU | right of withdrawal from the EU | right of withdrawal from the European Union | withdrawal from the European Union | withdrawal of a Member State from the EU | withdrawing EU country | withdrawing EU Member State ]

Frontex [ European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union | European Border and Coast Guard Agency ]

Companies or firms formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the Union shall, for the purposes of this Chapter, be treated in the same way as natural persons who are nationals of Member States.

Consequently, the appropriate legal basis is Article 53(1) TFEU, which deals with the taking-up and pursuit of activities as self-employed persons, given that Article 54 TFEU provides that companies or firms formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the Union are be treated in the same way as natural persons who are nationals of Member States for the purposes of Article 53.

13. Acknowledges that in 2013, many petitioners voiced their alarm at the apparent injustices which occur in Denmark regarding the administrative and judicial procedures related to parental separation and divorce and the subsequent custody of young children; notes in this context that in the case of bi-national couples there are clear examples of discrimination on grounds of nationality in favour of the spouse from the Member State concerned with the proceedings and against the non-national of that state, with severe and often very negative and dramatic repercussions on the rights of the child; notes in this context severe violations o ...[+++]f the fundamental rights of both the petitioner and the child; notes that the Petitions Committee undertook a fact-finding visit to Denmark to investigate such claims directly where the situation appears to be particularly acute; notes that some cases were also recorded from other countries, notably Germany (especially cases concerning the activities of the Jugendamt), France and the UK;

13. Acknowledges that in 2013, many petitioners voiced their alarm at the apparent injustices which occur in Denmark regarding the administrative and judicial procedures related to parental separation and divorce and the subsequent custody of young children; notes in this context that in the case of bi-national couples there are clear examples of discrimination on grounds of nationality in favour of the spouse from the Member State concerned with the proceedings and against the non-national of that state, with severe and often very negative and dramatic repercussions on the rights of the child; notes in this context severe violations o ...[+++]f the fundamental rights of both the petitioner and the child; notes that the Petitions Committee undertook a fact-finding visit to Denmark to investigate such claims directly where the situation appears to be particularly acute; notes that some cases were also recorded from other countries, notably Germany (especially cases concerning the activities of the Jugendamt), France and the UK;