Case C-651/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État — Belgium) — JP v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Asylum policy — Common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection — Directive 2013/32/EU — Article 46 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Article 47 — Right to an effective remedy — Action brought against a subsequent application for international protection as being inadmissible — Time limit for bringing proceedings — Rules governing notification)
Date: 2020-09-09
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: asylum seeker, foreign national, limitation of legal proceedings, right of asylum, right to justice








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9.11.2020   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 378/15






Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 9 September 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État — Belgium) — JP v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides
(Case C-651/19) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Asylum policy - Common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection - Directive 2013/32/EU - Article 46 - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Article 47 - Right to an effective remedy - Action brought against a subsequent application for international protection as being inadmissible - Time limit for bringing proceedings - Rules governing notification)
(2020/C 378/18)
Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d'État

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: JP

Defendant: Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides

Operative part of the judgment

Article 46 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, read in the light of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as not precluding legislation of a Member State which provides that proceedings challenging a decision declaring a subsequent application for international protection to be inadmissible are subject to a limitation period of 10 days, including public holidays, as from the date of service of such decision, even where, when the applicant concerned has not specified an address for service in that Member State, that service is made at the head office of the national authority responsible for the examination of those applications, provided that (i) those applicants are informed that, where they have not specified an address for service for the purposes of notification of the decision concerning their application, they will be deemed to have specified an address for service for those purposes at the head office of that national authority; (ii) the conditions for access of those applicants to that head office do not render receipt by those applicants of the decisions concerning them excessively difficult, (iii) genuine access to the procedural safeguards granted to applicants for international protection by EU law is ensured within such a period, and (iv) the principle of equivalence is respected. It is for the referring court to determine whether the national legislation at issue in the main proceedings meets those requirements.


(1)  OJ C 372, 4.11.2019.