Case C-387/24 PPU, Bouskoura: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats Roermond – Netherlands) – C v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid (Reference for a preliminary ruling – Urgent preliminary ruling procedure – Border control, asylum and immigration – Directive 2008/115/EC – Article 15(2)(b) – Detention of a third-country national for the purpose of removal – Directive 2013/33/EU – Article 9 – Detention of an applicant for international protection – Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 – Article 28(2) – Detention for the purpose of transfer – Unlawful detention – Articles 6 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)
Date: 2024-10-04
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: asylum seeker, detention before trial, foreign national, illegal migration, international protection, removal, return migration, right of asylum








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C/2025/701


10.2.2025






Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 4 October 2024 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats Roermond – Netherlands) – C v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid


(Case C-387/24 PPU,
                (1)
Bouskoura)
                (2)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Urgent preliminary ruling procedure - Border control, asylum and immigration - Directive 2008/115/EC - Article 15(2)(b) - Detention of a third-country national for the purpose of removal - Directive 2013/33/EU - Article 9 - Detention of an applicant for international protection - Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 - Article 28(2) - Detention for the purpose of transfer - Unlawful detention - Articles 6 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)
(C/2025/701)
Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Rechtbank Den Haag, zittingsplaats Roermond

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: C

Defendant: Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid

Operative part of the judgment

Article 15(2) and (4) 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) 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 the light of Articles 6 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which does not require the competent judicial authority to order the release of a third-country national, who is in detention pursuant to a measure adopted on the basis of Directive 2008/115, on the ground that that person, whose detention had initially been ordered pursuant to a measure adopted on the basis of Regulation No 604/2013, had not been released immediately after a finding that that latter measure had become unlawful.


(1)  OJ C C/2024/4453.

(2)  The name of the present case is a fictitious name. It does not correspond to the real name of any party to the proceedings.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/701/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)