CELEX: 62013CA0554
Language: en
Date: 2015-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-554/13: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — the Netherlands) — Z. Zh. v Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie, Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie v I. O. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Return of illegally staying third-country nationals — Article 7(4) — Concept of ‘risk to public policy’ — Circumstances in which Member States may refrain from granting a period for voluntary departure, or may grant a period shorter than seven days)

20150731023616742015/C 270/035542013CJC27020150817EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL201506113311Case C-554/13: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — the Netherlands) — Z. Zh. v Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie, Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie v I. O. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Return of illegally staying third-country nationals — Article 7(4) — Concept of ‘risk to public policy’ — Circumstances in which Member States may refrain from granting a period for voluntary departure, or may grant a period shorter than seven days)
 ---documentbreak--- C2702015EN310120150611EN00033131Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — the Netherlands) — Z. Zh. v Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie, Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie v I. O.
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   ‛(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Directive 2008/115/EC — Return of illegally staying third-country nationals — Article 7(4) — Concept of ‘risk to public policy’ — Circumstances in which Member States may refrain from granting a period for voluntary departure, or may grant a period shorter than seven days)’2015/C 270/03Language of the case: Dutch
      Referring court
   
   Raad van State
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Z. Zh., Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie
   
      Defendants: Staatssecretaris voor Veiligheid en Justitie, I. O.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
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            Article 7(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 must be interpreted as precluding a national practice whereby a third-country national, who is staying illegally within the territory of a Member State, is deemed to pose a risk to public policy within the meaning of that provision on the sole ground that that national is suspected, or has been criminally convicted, of an act punishable as a criminal offence under national law.
         
      
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            Article 7(4) of Directive 2008/115 must be interpreted to the effect that, in the case of a third-country national who is staying illegally within the territory of a Member State and is suspected, or has been criminally convicted, of an act punishable as a criminal offence under national law, other factors, such as the nature and seriousness of that act, the time which has elapsed since it was committed and the fact that that national was in the process of leaving the territory of that Member State when he was detained by the national authorities, may be relevant in the assessment of whether he poses a risk to public policy within the meaning of that provision. Any matter which relates to the reliability of the suspicion that the third-country national concerned committed the alleged criminal offence, as the case may be, is also relevant to that assessment.
         
      
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            Article 7(4) of Directive 2008/115 must be interpreted as meaning that it is not necessary, in order to make use of the option offered by that provision to refrain from granting a period for voluntary departure when the third-country national poses a risk to public policy, to conduct a fresh examination of the matters which have already been examined in order to establish the existence of that risk. Any legislation or practice of a Member State on this issue must nevertheless ensure that a case-by-case assessment is conducted of whether the refusal to grant such a period is compatible with that person’s fundamental rights.
         
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      )	OJ C 9, 11.1.2014.