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A request sent by one Member State to another to take responsibility for an applicant based on the AMMR criteria.
The rules on evidence should allow for a swifter family reunification than under Regulation (EU) No 604/2013. It is therefore necessary to clarify that formal proof, such as original documentary evidence and DNA testing, should not be necessary where the circumstantial evidence is coherent, verifiable and sufficiently detailed to establish responsibility for examining an application […]
The application of this Regulation can be facilitated, and its effectiveness increased, by bilateral arrangements between Member States for improving communication between competent departments, reducing time limits for procedures or simplifying the processing of take charge requests or take back notifications, or by establishing procedures for the performance of transfers and in order to carry […]
1. In order to facilitate the procedure for determining the Member State responsible, the competent authorities of the determining Member State referred to in Article 38(1) shall conduct a personal interview with the applicant for the purpose of applying Article 39. The interview shall also enable the applicant to properly understand the information received in […]
1. By way of derogation from Article 16(1), a Member State may decide to examine an application for international protection by a third-country national or a stateless person registered with it, even if such examination is not its responsibility according to the criteria laid down in this Regulation. 2. The Member State in which an […]
1. The Member State responsible under this Regulation shall be obliged to: (a) take charge, under the conditions laid down in Articles 39, 40 and 46, of an applicant whose application was registered in a different Member State; (b) take back, under the conditions laid down in Articles 41 and 46 of this Regulation, an […]
1. If the Member State referred to in Article 38(1) considers that another Member State is responsible for examining the application, it shall, immediately and in any event within two months of the date on which the application was registered, request that other Member State to take charge of the applicant. Member States shall prioritise […]
1. The requested Member State shall carry out the necessary checks, and shall reply to the request to take charge of an applicant without delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. Member States shall prioritise requests made on the basis of Articles 25 to 28 and 34. To that […]
Specific rules should be laid down for situations of crisis characterised by mass arrivals and for force majeure, to allow Member States to extend the time limits set out in under strict conditions where it is impossible to comply with those time limits due to the extraordinary situation. Such extension should apply simultaneously to the […]
1. A Member State facing a situation of crisis may request the following types of contributions in the reasoned request referred to in Article 2: (a) relocations, to be conducted following the procedures set out in Articles 67 and 68 of : (i) of applicants for international protection; (ii) where bilaterally agreed by the contributing […]
1. In a situation of crisis as referred to in Article 1(4), point (a), or force majeure which renders it impossible for a Member State facing such a situation to comply with the time limits set out in Articles 39, 40, 41 and 46 of or to receive persons for whom it is responsible pursuant […]
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