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A Member State facing a situation of crisis or force majeure can request support from the Asylum Agency, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency or Europol in accordance with their mandates. In addition and as appropriate, the Asylum Agency can propose assistance on its own initiative in accordance with Article 16(1), point (d), of […]
Council (11) provides for a system of temporary protection which was activated for the first time by means of Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/382 (12) in response to the war in Ukraine. Pursuant to that system of temporary protection, Member States are to register persons enjoying temporary protection on their territory. Member States are also […]
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, established by of the European Parliament and of the Council (22), supports Member States in their efforts to better manage the external borders and control illegal immigration. The European Union Agency for Asylum, established by of the European Parliament and of the Council (23), provides operational and technical […]
The fact that the application for international protection follows or is made simultaneously with the apprehension of the third-country national or stateless person illegally staying on the territory of Member States, does not exempt Member States from registering those persons as persons found to be illegally staying on the territory of the Member States.
For the purpose of applying the grounds for refusal under , the biometric data of third-country nationals or stateless persons registered for the purpose of conducting an admission procedure under that Regulation should be taken, transmitted to Eurodac and compared against the data stored in Eurodac of beneficiaries of international protection, of persons who have […]
For the purpose of protecting personal data, and to exclude systematic comparisons which should be forbidden, the processing of Eurodac data should only take place in specific cases and when it is necessary for the purpose of preventing, detecting or investigating terrorist offences or other serious criminal offences. A specific case exists, in particular, when […]
Member States, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission should ensure that the national supervisory authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor are able to supervise the use of and access to Eurodac data adequately.
This harmonisation and convergence of national asylum systems should be achieved without preventing Member States from introducing or retaining more favourable provisions where provided for by this Regulation.
Where it is necessary and duly justified for the examination of an application for international protection, the competent authorities should be able to require that the applicant be searched or that his or her items be searched. Those items may include electronic devices such as laptops, tablet computers or mobile phones. Any such search should […]
In order to guarantee the rights of the applicants, decisions on all applications for international protection should be taken on the basis of the facts, objectively, impartially and on an individual basis after a thorough examination which takes into account all the elements provided by the applicant and the individual circumstances of the applicant. To […]
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