Safe Third Country – EU Migration Pact information

Procedures Regulation:
Article 44 – Decisions in the framework of the asylum border procedure

1. Where a border procedure is applied, decisions may be taken on the following: (a) the inadmissibility of an application in accordance with Article 38; (b) the merits of an application where any of the circumstances referred to in Article 42(1), points (a) to (g) and (j), and Article 42(3), point (b), apply. 2. Where […]

AMMR:
Recital 36

The Common European Asylum System has been built progressively as a common area of protection based on the full and inclusive application of the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28 July 1951, as supplemented by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967 (the ‘Geneva Convention’), thus ensuring that no person […]

Procedures Regulation:
Article 57 – The notion of effective protection

1. A third country that has ratified and respects the Geneva Convention within the limits of the derogations or limitations made by that third country, as permitted under that Convention, shall be considered to ensure effective protection. In the case of geographical limitations made by the third country, the existence of protection for persons who […]

AMMR:
Article 16 – Access to the procedure for examining an application for international protection

1. Member States shall examine an application for international protection by a third-country national or a stateless person who applies on the territory of any one of them, including at the border or in the transit zones. The application shall be examined by a single Member State which shall be the Member State responsible on […]

Procedures Regulation:
Article 59 – The concept of safe third country

1. A third country may only be designated as a safe third country where in that country: (a) non-nationals’ life and liberty are not threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion; (b) non-nationals face no real risk of serious harm as defined in Article 15 of […]

AMMR:
Article 19 – Right to information

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 […]

Procedures Regulation:
Article 60 – Designation of safe third countries at Union level

1. Third countries shall be designated as safe third countries at Union level in accordance with the conditions laid down in Article 59(1). 2. The Commission shall review the situation in third countries that are designated as safe third countries with the assistance of the Asylum Agency and on the basis of the other sources […]

Procedures Regulation:
Recital 45

Member States should have the possibility to reject an application as inadmissible for instance when a country which is not a Member State is considered to be a first country of asylum or a safe third country for the applicant or when an international court or tribunal has provided safe relocation to the applicant to […]

Procedures Regulation:
Article 63 – Suspension and removal of the designation of a third country as a safe third country or as a safe country of origin at Union level

1. In the event of significant changes in the situation of a third country which is designated as a safe third country or as a safe country of origin at Union level, the Commission shall conduct a substantiated assessment of the fulfilment by that third country of the conditions set out in Article 59 or […]

Procedures Regulation:
Recital 48

Member States should have the possibility to apply the concept of safe third country as a ground for inadmissibility where the possibility exists for the applicant to request and, if the conditions are fulfilled, to receive effective protection in a third country, where his or her life and liberty are not threatened on account of […]