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 each case, Member States may detain a person subject to the screening, if other less coercive alternative measures cannot be applied effectively. Detention should only be applied as a measure of last resort in accordance with the principles of necessity and proportionality and should be subject to an effective remedy, in line with national, Union and international law. The relevant provisions of of the European Parliament and of the Council (8) , for applicants for international protection, and the relevant rules on detention set out in , for third-country nationals who have not made an application for international protection, should apply during the screening.
8. Directive (EU) 2024/1346 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 laying down the standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (OJ L, 2024/1346, 22.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1346/oj). ↩︎