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29/07/2019
CJEU ruled that judicial courts have the power to overturn administrative decision in the granting of international protection

ECLI
ECLI:EU:C:2019:626
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Type
Judgment
Original Documents
Relevant Legislative Provisions
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights ; Revised Asylum Procedures Directive (Directive 2013/32/EU on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection) and/or APD 2005/85/CE; Revised Qualification Directive (Directive 2011/95/EU on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as BIP for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection- recast)/or QD 2004/83/EC
Reference
European Union, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU], Alekszij Torubarov v Immigration and Asylum Office (Bevándorlási és Menekültügyi Hivatal), C–556/17, ECLI:EU:C:2019:626 , 29 July 2019. Link redirects to the English summary in the EUAA Case Law Database.
Permanent link to the case
https://caselaw.euaa.europa.eu/pages/viewcaselaw.aspx?CaseLawID=797
Case history
Other information
Abstract

Judgment: 


1. The request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 46(3) of Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (OJ 2013 L 180, p. 60), read in the light of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘the Charter’).


2. The request has been made in proceedings between Mr Alekszij Torubarov and Bevándorlási és Menekültügyi Hivatal (Immigration and Asylum Office, Hungary) (‘the Immigration Office’) concerning the rejection by that office of his application for international protection.


The Court ruled: 


Article 46(3) of Directive 2013/32/EU read in conjunction with Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as meaning that, in circumstances, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, where a first-instance court or tribunal has found — after making a full and ex nunc examination of all the relevant elements of fact and law submitted by an applicant for international protection — that, under the criteria laid down by Directive 2011/95/EU, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted, that applicant must be granted such protection on the ground that he or she relied on in support of his or her application, but after which the administrative or quasi-judicial body adopts a contrary decision without establishing that new elements have arisen that justify a new assessment of the international protection needs of the applicant, that court or tribunal must vary that decision which does not comply with its previous judgment and substitute its own decision for it as to the application for international protection, disapplying as necessary the national law that would prohibit it from proceeding in that way.


Following this CJEU ruling, the Hungarian Administrative and Labour Court ruled the amended of the Immigration and Asylum Office decision and granted refugee status to Alekszij Torubarov. The Court decision was issued on the 26th September of 2019 and it is not published yet. 


Country of Decision
European Union
Court Name
EU: Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]
Case Number
C–556/17
Date of Decision
29/07/2019
Country of Origin
Keywords
Effective remedy
First Instance determination
Withdrawal/End/Revocation/Renewal of Protection
Source
CURIA