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Third country definition

What does Third country mean? In data protection practice, a third country is any destination outside the relevant home regime to which personal data are exported, thereby engaging the international transfers rules. Under the UK GDPR, it is expressly defined as a country or territory outside the UK. Under the EU GDPR, the term is not separately defined; however, because the Regulation has eea relevance and is incorporated into the EEA agreement, it is understood to mean any country or territory outside the EEA (the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). Ireland follows this EEA meaning. Usage is consistent across England & Wales, Scotland...

Overview of EU legal migration directives for third-country nationals: admission, residence, equal treatment and intra‑EU mobility (Blue Card, ICT, Students/Researchers, Single Permit, Long‑Term Residents, Family Reunification)

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This Practice Note provides a high level overview of the common EU immigration policy

This Practice Note sets out a high-level survey of the EU’s common immigration policy, highlighting the principal Directives adopted since the late 1990s when the Union acquired explicit legislative authority in this field. It reviews the reach of those measures, the admission and residence criteria for Third country Nationals (TCN), the equal treatment entitlements accorded to TCNs, and the safeguards for continuity of residence for TCNs and their family members, alongside a short appraisal of how these Directives ease intra-EU free movement. The Internal market is intended to be an area without internal borders, guaranteeing the free movement of Goods, persons, services and capital in line with the Treaties (Article 26 TFEU, formerly Article 14 EC Treaty). While the EU lacked clear competence to govern the entry and movement of TCNs across Member States, the free movement of EU citizens (and their family members) and of services could not be fully or effectively secured. That position shifted with the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997, which conferred express powers on immigration, after which the European Commission began to develop a broadly unified common...

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