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The country or countries of nationality or, for stateless persons, of former habitual residence. [defined in Article 2 of the Qualification Regulation]
National authorities in the Member States experience difficulties in identifying illegally staying third-country nationals or stateless persons with a view to their return and readmission. It is therefore essential to ensure that data on third-country nationals or stateless persons who are staying illegally in the Union are collected and transmitted to Eurodac and are also […]
The Asylum Agency should provide Member States with the necessary operational and technical assistance in the application of this Regulation, in particular by providing experts to assist national authorities to receive and register applications for international protection and to assist the determining authority in the performance of its tasks including as regards the examination of […]
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 […]
1. The applicant shall lodge the application with the competent authority of the Member State where the application is made as soon as possible and no later than 21 days from when the application is registered, unless paragraph 7 of this Article applies, provided that he or she is given an effective opportunity to do […]
1. The determining authority shall examine and take decisions on applications for international protection in accordance with the basic principles and guarantees set out in Chapter II. 2. The determining authority shall take decisions on applications for international protection after an appropriate examination as to the admissibility or merits of an application. The determining authority […]
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘refugee status’ means the recognition by a Member State of a third-country national or a stateless person as a refugee; (2) ‘subsidiary protection status’ means the recognition by a Member State of a third-country national or a stateless person as a person eligible for […]
1. Applicants shall submit all the elements available to them which substantiate the application for international protection. For that purpose, applicants shall fully cooperate with the determining authority and with other competent authorities and shall remain present and available on the territory of the Member State responsible for examining their application throughout the procedure, including […]
1. The following elements shall be taken into account when assessing the reasons for persecution: (a) the concept of race shall, in particular, include considerations of colour, descent, or membership of a particular ethnic group; (b) the concept of religion shall, in particular, include the holding of theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, the participation in, […]
1. A third-country national or a stateless person shall cease to be a refugee where one or more of the following apply: (a) the third-country national has voluntarily re-availed himself or herself of the protection of the country of nationality; (b) having lost his or her nationality, the third-country national or stateless person has voluntarily […]
1. A beneficiary of subsidiary protection status shall cease to be eligible for subsidiary protection when the circumstances which led to the granting of that status have ceased to exist or have changed to such a degree that protection is no longer required. 2. In order to assess whether the circumstances which led to the […]
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