In Case C-225/16 on Wednesday 26 July, the European Court of Justice ruled that the duration of a ban on a non-EU national entering a particular member state who has been removed from the country should be calculated from the time when the individual leaves the country, not before.
A non-EU national was declared undesirable on 22 October 2002 by the Dutch authorities because he was a danger to public order. He was required to leave the Netherlands and live outside the Netherlands for ten...