{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-114/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-114/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2004/114",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2004/114/EC of 13 december 2004 on the conditions of admission of third-country nationals for the purposes of studies, pupil exchange, unremunerated training or voluntary service",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-114",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Directive shall apply to third-country nationals who apply to be admitted to the territory of a Member State for the purpose of studies.\nMember States may also decide to apply this Directive to third-country nationals who apply to be admitted for the purposes of pupil exchange, unremunerated training or voluntary service.\n2. This Directive shall not apply to:\n(a) third-country nationals residing in a Member State as asylum-seekers, or under subsidiary forms of protection, or under temporary protection schemes;\n(b) third-country nationals whose expulsion has been suspended for reasons of fact or of law;\n(c) third-country nationals who are family members of Union citizens who have exercised their right to free movement within the Community;\n(d) third-country nationals who enjoy long-term resident status in a Member State in accordance with Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 on the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents and exercise their right to reside in another Member State in order to study or receive vocational training;\n(e) third-country nationals considered under the national legislation of the Member State concerned as workers or self-employed persons.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 16, 23.1.2004, p. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2004/114/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:45.372527+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}