FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS AND THE LEGAL SECURITY OF DOCUMENTS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION
FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS AND THE LEGAL SECURITY OF DOCUMENTS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: The increase of international and European Union migration has led toincreasing attention to the impact of Member States' legislation on the recognition, legal certaintyand standardization of procedures for the movement of official documents, as part of the freemovement of persons within the European Union. This article responds to European Union'sneeds by examining the extent to which the various regulations, in particular regulations havingdirect and immediate application, being long and complex and comprehensively governing somecross-border procedures that underline the recognition of official documents within the EuropeanUnion. It is a fact that the Union facilitates and accelerates the cross-border application ofaspects of the free movement of persons in private international law, encourages thesimplification of the requirements for the presentation of certain official documents in EU, whilestrengthening the security of Union citizens' identity cards and residence documents etc. Byusing the historical and comparative method, the conclusions drawn from this analysis refer tothe need to apply these legislative rules established due to the necessity to ensure legal certaintyand predictability at Union level, but also offering to European citizens an attractive optioncompared to the classic variants of international law, the latter providing at times a moreconvincing and comprehensive legal certainty.

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