The applicant refused to undergo a COVID-19 PCR test prior to the Dublin transfer to Germany and the Administrative Tribunal of Paris ordered the registration of his application for international protection. According to article 29 of the Dublin III Regulation, the six-month time limit for transferring an asylum applicant to the Member State responsible for examining the application can be extended to 18 months if the applicant intentionally opposes his or her transfer. After the 18-month period has passed, the requesting Member State must itself examine the asylum application.
The Ministry of Interior submitted an application to the Council of State for their annulment of the order from the Administrative Tribunal of Paris to register the asylum application.

The Council of State noted that the applicant was aware that his refusal to do a PCR test would prevent his transfer to Germany. The French authorities were therefore entitled to refuse to register his asylum application as the 18-month deadline had not passed and as such, France was not yet responsible for examining his application. The Council of State thus ruled that the Administrative Tribunal of Paris wrongly assessed that the refusal to register the application violated the applicant right to asylum and annuled the contested order.