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The humanitarian status under national law should provide for rights and obligations equivalent to those of Articles 20 to 26 and 28 to 35 of for beneficiaries of subsidiary protection. Such a status should be withdrawn only in the event that new circumstances or new evidence arise concerning the person’s eligibility following the decision on […]
With respect to the treatment of persons falling within the scope of this Regulation, Member States are bound by obligations under instruments of international law to which they are party.
In accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of Protocol No 22 on the position of Denmark, annexed to the and to the , Denmark is not taking part in the adoption of this Regulation and is not bound by it or subject to its application. Given that this Regulation builds upon the Schengen acquis, Denmark […]
Third-country nationals subject to the screening should remain available to the screening authorities during the screening. Member States should lay down in their national law provisions to ensure the presence of those third-country nationals during the screening in order to prevent absconding. Where it proves necessary and on the basis of an individual assessment of […]
In order to ensure compliance with Union and international law, including , during the screening, each Member State should provide for a monitoring mechanism and put in place adequate safeguards for the independence thereof, such as respect of the Paris Principles, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 48/134 of 20 December 1993, of […]
Given that many persons submitted to the screening might not have any travel documents, the screening authorities should have access to any other relevant documents held by the persons concerned in cases where the biometric data of such persons are not usable or yield no result in the . The authorities should also be allowed […]
Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely to strengthen the control of third-country nationals crossing the external borders and to provide for the identification or verification of identity of all third-country nationals subject to the screening and for the consultation of relevant databases in order to verify whether the third-country nationals subject to the screening […]
Member States should take all necessary measures, inter alia, to provide access to international protection and adequate reception conditions to those in need, to promote legal pathways, to enable the effective application of the rules on determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection, to effectively manage the return of third-country […]
In order to facilitate the decision-making process, the Commission proposal for a Council implementing act establishing the Annual Solidarity Pool should not be made public until its adoption by the Council.
The Common European Asylum System has been built progressively as a common area of protection based on the full and inclusive application of the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28 July 1951, as supplemented by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967 (the ‘Geneva Convention’), thus ensuring that no person […]
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