The Administrative Court rejected an appeal brought against a decision of the Ministry of the Interior to dismiss an applicant’s request for international protection. The Ministry decided not to consider the application as, under the Dublin III Regulation, Croatia was the Member State responsible for his application for international protection.

The applicant claimed that his application for international protection was made in Croatia under circumstances that made it invalid. He alleged that police had arrested him, detained him, and taken his fingerprints and that he did not know why, as he was released immediately after.

The Supreme Court dismissed the claims of the applicant and assessed that there was no reasonable presumption that there were, in the present case, systemic deficiencies in Croatia as regards the asylum procedure and reception conditions for the applicant which could create a risk of inhuman or degrading treatment. The applicant also failed to demonstrate that he personally would be exposed to a risk of inhuman or degrading treatment following a transfer to Croatia. The Supreme Court thus rejected the applicant’s appeal. The motion for a temporary suspension of the transfer decision was likewise denied by the court.