HC Deb 11 May 1989 vol 152 c481W
78. Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement setting out the overseas territories of EEC countries whose inhabitants have the right of settlement in the EEC; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Chalker

EC nationals have the right to reside in the other member states of the Community in accordance with the Treaties. It is for each Member State to define who are its own nationals for Community purposes. The provisions of the EC treaty relating to the free movement of persons apply to European territories for whose external relations a member state is responsible, such as Gibraltar. Citizens of the following overseas territories are also defined as nationals by the member states concerned:

United Kingdom —Falkland Islands
France —St. Pierre et Miquelon, Mayotte and the overseas Departments and Territories
Netherlands —Aruba
—Netherlands Antilles
Portugal —Macau