CELEX: 62014CN0560
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-560/14: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court (Ireland) made on 5 December 2014 — MM v Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General

9.3.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 81/5
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Court (Ireland) made on 5 December 2014 — MM v Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General
   (Case C-560/14)
   (2015/C 081/06)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   Supreme Court, Ireland
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: MM
   
      Defendant: Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General
   
      Question referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does the ‘right to be heard’ in European Union law require that an applicant for subsidiary protection, made pursuant to Council Directive 2004/83/EC (1), be accorded an oral hearing of that application, including the right to call or cross-examine witnesses, when the application is made in circumstances where the Member State concerned operates two separate procedures, one after the other, for examining applications for refugee status and applications for subsidiary protection, respectively?
            
         
      (1)  Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted, OJ L 304, p. 12.