CELEX: 62007CN0465
Language: en
Date: 2007-10-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-465/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Netherlands) lodged on 17 October 2007 — M. and N. Elgafaji v Staatssecretaris van Justitie

12.1.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 8/5
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Netherlands) lodged on 17 October 2007 — M. and N. Elgafaji v Staatssecretaris van Justitie
   (Case C-465/07)
   (2008/C 8/08)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Referring court
   Raad van State/Netherlands
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Appellants: M. Elgafaji, N. Elgafaji and Staatssecretaris van Justitie
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Is Article 15(c) of Council Directive 2004/83/EC (1) 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 to be interpreted as offering protection only in a situation on which Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as interpreted in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, also has a bearing, or does Article 15(c), in comparison with Article 3 of the Convention, offer supplementary or other protection?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If Article 15(c) of the Directive, in comparison with Article 3 of the Convention, offers supplementary or other protection, what are the criteria in that case for determining whether a person who claims to be eligible for subsidiary protection status runs a real risk of serious and individual threat by reason of indiscriminate violence within the terms of Article 15(c) of the Directive, read in conjunction with Article 2(e) thereof?
            
         
      (1)  OJ L 304, p. 12.