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In so far as the family already existed before the applicant arrived on the territory of the Member States, members of the applicant’s family present on the territory of the same Member State during the procedure, specifically spouses/unmarried partners and minor or adult dependent children. [defined in Article 2 of the Reception Directive]
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 […]
In applying this Directive, Member States should seek to ensure full respect for the principles of the best interests of the child and of family unity, in accordance with , the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and, where […]
In order to provide for supplementary rules, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the identification of family members, siblings or relatives of an unaccompanied minor; the criteria for establishing the existence of proven family links in respect of unaccompanied minors; the criteria […]
In a situation of instrumentalisation and to prevent a third country or a hostile non-state actor from targeting specific nationalities or specific categories of third-country nationals or stateless persons, it should be possible for a Member State to derogate from the asylum procedure set out in this Regulation by taking a decision in the framework […]
For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘application for international protection’ or ‘application’ means a request for protection from a Member State made by a third-country national or a stateless person who can be understood to be seeking refugee status or subsidiary protection status; (2) ‘applicant’ means a third-country national or […]
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘third-country national’ means a person who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) and who is not a person enjoying the right to free movement under Union law as defined in Article 2, point (5), of of the […]
1. In a situation of crisis or force majeure, by way of derogation from Article 27 of , the Member State facing that situation may register applications made within the period during which this paragraph is applied, no later than four weeks after those applications are made. 2. When applying paragraph 1, the Member State […]
1. This Directive applies to all third-country nationals and stateless persons who make an application for international protection on the territory, including at the external border, in the territorial sea or in the transit zones of the Member States, provided that those third-country nationals and stateless persons are allowed to remain on the territory as […]
1. As soon as possible and in any event by the date when an application for international protection is registered in a Member State, the competent authority of that Member State shall provide the applicant with information on the application of this Regulation, on his or her rights pursuant to this Regulation, and on the […]
1. In a situation of crisis or force majeure, Member States may, as regards applications made within the period during which this Article is applied, derogate from Article 51(2) of , by extending the maximum duration of the border procedure for the examination of applications set out in that Article by an additional period of […]
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