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Considering that a Member State could be faced with several of the situations described in this Regulation at the same time, it is possible for that Member State to request various measures under this Regulation and be authorised to apply or benefit from those measures simultaneously, which are conceived as complementary.
Where derogations from the asylum procedure are applied, the safeguards for applicants with special procedural and special reception needs, including medical conditions, should be a primary consideration for the competent authorities. For that reason, the Member State facing a situation of crisis or force majeure should not apply, or should cease to apply, the derogations […]
Applicants whose applications are examined in the context of the expedited procedure provided for in this Regulation, should, in accordance with Article 29 of , receive a document certifying their status in a language they can understand or can reasonably be supposed to understand.
In order to apply efficiently, it is necessary to allow each Member State to check whether a third-country national or a stateless person has been granted international protection or humanitarian status under national law in accordance with that Regulation by another Member State or has been admitted to the territory of a Member State in […]
For that purpose, it is also necessary to clearly record in Eurodac the fact that an application for international protection has been rejected where the third-country national or stateless person has no right to remain and has not been allowed to remain in accordance with .
With a view to ensuring equal treatment for all applicants and beneficiaries of international protection, as well as in order to ensure consistency with the current Union asylum acquis, in particular with Regulations , and , this Regulation includes in its scope applicants for subsidiary protection and persons eligible for subsidiary protection.
Where detention is used in order to determine or verify a third-country national’s or stateless person’s identity, it should only be used by Member States as a means of last resort and in full respect of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and in compliance with relevant Union law, […]
It is necessary to designate the competent authorities of the Member States as well as the National Access Point through which the requests for comparison with Eurodac data are made and to keep a list of the operating units within the designated authorities that are authorised to request such comparison for the specific purposes of […]
By way of derogation from the rule that no personal data obtained by a Member State pursuant to this Regulation should be transferred or made available to any third country, it should be possible to transfer such personal data to a third country where such a transfer is subject to strict conditions and is necessary […]
A common policy on asylum 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’), is a constituent part of the European Union’s objective of establishing progressively an area of […]
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