62024CJ0184_SUM
Case C‑184/24 [Sidi Bouzid] (
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AF
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Ministero dell’Interno – U.T.G. – Prefettura di Milano
(Request for a preliminary rulingfrom the Tribunale amministrativo regionale per la Lombardia)
Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 18 December 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Area of freedom, security and justice – Asylum policy – Directive 2013/33/EU – Applicants for international protection – Article 7 – Place of residence – Article 18 – Material reception conditions – Housing – Accommodation centres – Transfer – Applicant’s refusal – Article 20(1)(a) – Reduction of material reception conditions or withdrawal of that benefit in exceptional and duly justified cases – Abandonment of the place of residence without informing the competent authority or without permission – Article 20(4) – Serious breaches of the rules of the accommodation centre – Article 20(5) – Proportionality – Dignified standard of living – Article 21 – Applicants falling within the category of vulnerable persons – Article 23 – Minors – Power of a Member State to withdraw material reception conditions if the applicant refuses to be transferred to another accommodation centre)
Border controls, asylum and immigration – Asylum policy – Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection – Directive 2013/33 – Reduction or withdrawal of material reception conditions – Abandonment of the place of residence without informing the competent authority or without permission – Meaning – Applicant’s refusal to be transferred to another accommodation centre – Not included – Sanctions – Withdrawal of all of the material reception conditions – Not permissible – Repeated refusal constituting a serious breach of the rules of the accommodation centres – Sanctions – Reduction of the material reception conditions – Whether permissible – Limit – Obligation to take into consideration the particular circumstances of the applicant and the principle of proportionality
(European Parliament and Council Directives 2011/95, Art. 4, 2013/32, Arts 13 to 17 and 28, and 2013/33, recitals 25 and 35, and Arts 3(1), 7, 12, 18, 20, 21, 23(1) and (2), and 26)
(see paragraphs 41-80, operative part)
See the text of the decision.
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)	The name of the present case is a fictitious name. It does not correspond to the real name of any party to the proceedings.