This article provides an overview and comparative analysis of the rules and policies
adopted at national level in EU member states in order to implement the EU migration directives and other national rules relevant to the intra-EU mobility of third-country nationals. Specifically, it explores the national rules and procedures that apply to various specific categories of mobile third-country nationals, including those provided for within the EU migration directives. It also examines how these national rules and procedures differ from those applied to third-country nationals seeking to enter and stay in the EU member state for the first time, and from the national rules and procedures that apply to mobile EU citizens. The scope of mobility rights forthird-country nationals is contained by both the EU"s migration directives and the national policies and legislation of individual EU Member State. The legal migration directives contain specific mobility provisions for the following categories of third-country nationals and their familieso third-country nationals who are long-term residents (Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents; third-country national holders of& an EU Blue Card in one Member for highly qualified employment (Council Directive 2009/50/EC of 25 May 2009 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment); o researchers (Council D&irective 2005/71/EC of 12 October 2005 on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research); o students (Council Directive 2004/114/EC of 13 December 2004 on the conditions of admission of third-count&ry nationals for the purposes of studies, pupil exchange, unremunerated training or voluntary service); o posted workers (Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the fr&amework of the provision of services). The EU migration directives that provide for mobility of third-country nationals, leave significant areas of discretion to Member States, and therefore to national laws in shaping mobility. Member States, acting& legally, can and do limit or encourage such mobility, according to their national policies and priorities, thus creating differences in rules and practice across the Member States. Member States have applied a number of measures, legally allowed by &the migration directives that can influence intra-EU mobility or the decision of third-country nationals already present in the EU to relocate to another Member State for the purpose of employment. Most notably, labour market restrictions under Membe&r States" managed migration policies often apply equally to all third-country nationals, including those whose mobility rights are provided for in the EU acquis, thus representing barriers to the movements of these groups.
У статті дається огляд та &порівняльний аналіз правил і стратегій, при-
йнятих на національному рівні державами-членами ЄС з метою реалізації директив ЄС щодо міграційних питань, та інші національні правила, які стосуються пересування всередині ЄС громадян третіх країн. Зокре&ма, досліджуються національні правила і процедури, які застосовуються до різних категорій мобільних громадян третіх країн, у тому числі ті, які передбачені в рамках директив ЄС з питань міграції. Крім того, статтею визначається, як ці національні пра&вила і процедури відрізняються від тих, які застосовуються до громадян третіх країн, що прагнуть вперше в"їхати і залишитися в країні-члені ЄС, і національних правил і процедур, які застосовуються до громадян ЄС.
Обсяг прав громадян третіх країн щод&о пересування містять як міграційні директиви ЄС, так і національна політика й законодавство кожної конкретної держави-члена ЄС. Директиви з міграційних питань включають конкретні положення щодо пересування наступних категорій громадян третіх країн т&
