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A third-country national or stateless person below the age of 18 years. [defined in Article 2 of the Reception Directive]
1. A system known as ‘Eurodac’ is hereby established. Its purpose is to: (a) support the asylum system, including by assisting in determining which Member State is to be responsible pursuant to for examining an application for international protection registered in a Member State by a third-country national or a stateless person and by facilitating […]
1. Without prejudice to the obligations to collect and transmit data in accordance with Article 15(1) , the authorities competent for registering applications, the authorities of another Member State referred to in Article 5(1), point (b) of this Regulation or the experts deployed by the Asylum Agency which assist them with that task shall register […]
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 […]
1. The information referred to in Article 19 shall be provided in writing in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language and in a language that the applicant understands or is reasonably supposed to understand. Member States shall use the common information material drawn up pursuant to paragraph 2 […]
1. For the purposes of this Regulation: (a) ‘applicant for international protection’ means a third-country national or a stateless person who has made an application for international protection as defined in Article 3, point (7), of in respect of which a final decision has not yet been taken; (b) ‘person registered for the purpose of […]
1. The competent authorities of the Member State where an application for international protection is made shall, upon registration of the application, provide the applicant with a document in his or her own name indicating that an application has been made and registered. That document shall be valid until the document referred to in paragraph […]
1. Detention of applicants shall take place, as a rule, in specialised detention facilities. Where a Member State cannot provide accommodation in a specialised detention facility and is obliged to resort to prison accommodation, the detained applicant shall be kept separately from ordinary prisoners and the detention conditions provided for in this Directive shall apply. […]
1. The best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration for Member States with respect to all procedures provided for in this Regulation. Procedures including minors shall be treated with priority. 2. Each Member State where an unaccompanied minor is present shall ensure that he or she is represented and assisted by a […]
1. shall draw up statistics on the work of Eurodac every month indicating, in particular: (a) the number of applicants and the number of first-time applicants resulting from the linking process referred to in Article 3(6); (b) the number of rejected applicants resulting from the linking process referred to in Article 3(6) and pursuant to […]
1. In the case of an adult requiring assistance to exercise legal capacity in accordance with national law (the ‘dependent adult’), an adult responsible for him or her whether by law or by practice of the Member State concerned may make and lodge an application on the behalf of the dependent adult. 2. The dependent […]
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