Joined Cases C-704/20 and C-39/21: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 November 2022 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State, Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats’s-Hertogenbosch — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid v C, B (C-704/20), X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-39/21) (References for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Detention of third-country nationals — Fundamental right to liberty — Article 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Conditions governing the lawfulness of detention — Directive 2008/115/EC — Article 15 — Directive 2013/33/EU — Article 9 — Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 — Article 28 — Review of the lawfulness of detention and of the continuation of a detention measure — Ex officio review — Fundamental right to an effective judicial remedy — Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights)
Date: 2022-11-08
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: detention before trial, foreign national, fundamental rights, illegal migration, international protection, judicial review, legality, return migration, right to justice








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9.1.2023   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 7/4






Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 8 November 2022 (requests for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State, Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats’s-Hertogenbosch — Netherlands) — Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid v C, B (C-704/20), X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-39/21)
(Joined Cases C-704/20 and C-39/21) (1)

(References for a preliminary ruling - Area of freedom, security and justice - Detention of third-country nationals - Fundamental right to liberty - Article 6 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Conditions governing the lawfulness of detention - Directive 2008/115/EC - Article 15 - Directive 2013/33/EU - Article 9 - Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 - Article 28 - Review of the lawfulness of detention and of the continuation of a detention measure - Ex officio review - Fundamental right to an effective judicial remedy - Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights)
(2023/C 7/05)
Language of the case: Dutch

Referring courts

Raad van State, Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats’s-Hertogenbosch

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-704/20), X (C-39/21)

Defendants: C, B (C-704/20), Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (C-39/21)

Operative part of the judgment

Article 15(2) and (3) of Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals, Article 9(3) and (5) of Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection, and Article 28(4) of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person, read in conjunction with Articles 6 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
must be interpreted as meaning that
a judicial authority’s review of compliance with the conditions governing the lawfulness of the detention of a third-country national which derive from EU law must lead that authority to raise of its own motion, on the basis of the material in the file brought to its attention, as supplemented or clarified during the adversarial proceedings before it, any failure to comply with a condition governing lawfulness which has not been invoked by the person concerned.


(1)  OJ C 128, 12.4.2021.