Recital 49

(49) This Regulation lays down obligations with a view to ensuring transparency in relation to national measures adopted during an internal market emergency mode that restrict the right to free movement of persons. Any such restrictions should comply with Union law, in particular Directive 2004/38/EC. Those obligations should be without prejudice to any existing information or notification obligations that continue to apply. The free movement of persons is of paramount importance for the proper functioning of the internal market. Experience from the COVID-19 crisis shows that restrictions to that right to free movement can have spill-over effects on all other fundamental freedoms. Lack of information on crisis-related restrictions to the free movement of persons can cause Union citizens and economic operators additional difficulties in managing their activities during a crisis. Currently, there is no applicable transparency system in force that could provide Union citizens and economic operators with information on restrictions to the free movement of persons. Member States should communicate to the Commission and to other Member States the text of the national legislative or regulatory provisions introducing restrictions on the exercise of the right to free movement of persons in response to a crisis, as well as the modifications thereof, without delay after their adoption. That text should be accompanied by the reasons for such measures, including reasons demonstrating that the measures are justified and proportionate, as well as any underlying scientific or other data supporting their adoption, the scope of such measures, the dates of adoption and application, and the duration of those measures. To ensure that Union citizens and economic operators can obtain reliable information regarding restrictions to free movement, Member States should provide the public with clear, comprehensive and timely information explaining such measures, in particular their scope, date of adoption and application and duration, as soon as possible. That information should also be provided to the Commission. On that basis, the Commission should publish the relevant information on a dedicated website available in all official languages of the institutions of the Union.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-27 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.