EU Treaty Rights applications and decisions by year and month

Ireland is a Member State of the European Union (EU) and, as such, it offers freedom of movement to nationals of the European Economic Area (EEA) and certain family members. The relevant EU legislation in this regard is the ‘Directive on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States’ (Directive 2004/38/EC), which was published in 2004. This dataset relates to EU Treaty Rights applications along with granted and refused decisions by year and month. This dataset has been generated at a specific point in time and is subject to revision. Some values less than 4 may be suppressed for statistical non-disclosure reasons.