62021CJ0228_SUM
Joined Cases C‑228/21, C‑254/21, C‑297/21, C‑315/21 and C‑328/21
Ministero dell’Interno, Dipartimento per le libertà civili e l’immigrazione – Unità Dublino and Others
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CZAandMinistero dell’Interno, Dipartimento per le libertà civili e l’immigrazione – Unità Dublino
(Requests for a preliminary rulingfrom the Corte suprema di cassazione, Tribunale ordinario di Roma, Tribunale ordinario di Firenze, Tribunale di Milano and Tribunale di Trieste)
Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 30 November 2023
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Asylum policy – Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 – Articles 3 to 5, 17 and 27 – Regulation (EU) No 603/2013 – Article 29 – Regulation (EU) No 1560/2003 – Annex X – Right to information of the applicant for international protection – Common leaflet – Personal interview – Application for international protection previously lodged in a first Member State – New application lodged in a second Member State – Illegal stay in the second Member State – Take back procedure – Infringement of the right to information – No personal interview – Protection against the risk of indirect refoulement – Mutual trust – Judicial review of the transfer decision – Scope – Finding of the existence, in the requested Member State, of systemic flaws in the asylum procedure and in the reception conditions for applicants for international protection – Discretionary clauses – Risk of infringement of the principle of non-refoulement in the requested Member State)
Border controls, asylum and immigration – Asylum policy – Criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection – Regulations No 603/2013 and No 604/2013 – Right to information of the applicant for international protection – Personal interview – Obligations to provide information to the applicant, in particular the common leaflet, and to conduct a personal interview with the applicant – Scope – Infringement of those obligations – Consequences
(European Parliament and Council Regulations No 603/2013, Arts 1, 17(1) and 29, and No 604/2013, Arts 4, 5, 18(1)(b), (c) and (d), 20(1), (2) and (5), 21(1), 23(1) and (2), 24(1) and 27; Commission Regulation No 1560/2003, Art. 16a(1), and Annexes X and XIII)
(see paragraphs 79-90, 100-102, 105, 106, 124-128, operative part 1)
Border controls, asylum and immigration – Asylum policy – Criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection – Regulation No 604/2013 – Action brought against a transfer decision taken in respect of an applicant for international protection – No finding, from the court or tribunal hearing that action, of the existence, in the requested Member State, of systemic flaws in the asylum procedure and in the reception conditions for applicants for international protection – Examination, by that court or tribunal, whether there is, in that Member State, a risk of infringement of the principle of non-refoulement – Not permissible
(Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Arts 4, 19 and 47; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 604/2013, Arts 3(1) and (2), second subpara., and 27; European Parliament and Council Regulation 2011/95, Arts 8 and 15(c))
(see paragraphs 140-142, operative part 2)
Border controls, asylum and immigration – Asylum policy – Criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection – Regulation No 604/2013 – Member States’ discretion – Court or tribunal of the requesting Member State disagreeing with the assessment of the requested Member State as to the risk of refoulement of the person concerned – Obligation to declare the requesting Member State responsible – No obligation – Whether possible to compel the requesting Member State to examine an application for international protection, if there are no systemic flaws in the asylum procedure and in the reception conditions for applicants for international protection in the requested Member State – Not possible
(Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Arts 4, 19 and 47; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 604/2013, Arts 3(2), 17(1) and 27)
(see paragraphs 146-152, operative part 3)
See the text of the decision.