CELEX: 62016CA0638
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-638/16 PPU: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 7 March 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil du Contentieux des Étrangers — Belgium) — X and X v État belge (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 — Article 25(1)(a) — Visa with limited territorial validity — Issuing of a visa on humanitarian grounds or because of international obligations — Concept of ‘international obligations’ — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms — Geneva Convention — Issuing of a visa where a risk of infringement of Article 4 and/or Article 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights is established — No obligation)

8.5.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 144/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 7 March 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil du Contentieux des Étrangers — Belgium) — X and X v État belge
   (Case C-638/16 PPU) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 - Article 25(1)(a) - Visa with limited territorial validity - Issuing of a visa on humanitarian grounds or because of international obligations - Concept of ‘international obligations’ - Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - Geneva Convention - Issuing of a visa where a risk of infringement of Article 4 and/or Article 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights is established - No obligation))
   (2017/C 144/18)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Conseil du Contentieux des Étrangers
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: X and X
   
      Defendant: État belge
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code), as amended by Regulation (EU) No 610/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, must be interpreted as meaning that an application for a visa with limited territorial validity made on humanitarian grounds by a third-country national, on the basis of Article 25 of the code, to the representation of the Member State of destination that is within the territory of a third country, with a view to lodging, immediately upon his or her arrival in that Member State, an application for international protection and, thereafter, to staying in that Member State for more than 90 days in a 180-day period, does not fall within the scope of that code but, as EU law currently stands, solely within that of national law.
   
      (1)  OJ C 38, 6.2.2017.