CELEX: 62016CN0018
Language: en
Date: 2016-01-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-18/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag zittingsplaats Haarlem (Netherlands) lodged on 13 January 2016 — K v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie

14.3.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 98/25
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag zittingsplaats Haarlem (Netherlands) lodged on 13 January 2016 — K v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie
   (Case C-18/16)
   (2016/C 098/31)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Rechtbank Den Haag zittingsplaats Haarlem
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: K
   
      Defendant: Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie
   
      Questions referred
   
   Is Article 8(3) (a) and (b) of the Reception Directive (1) valid in the light of Article 6 of the Charter (2):
   
               (1)
            
            
               in a situation where a third-country national is detained under Article 8(3)(a) and (b) of the Reception Directive and, under Article 9 of the Asylum Procedures Directive, (3) has the right to remain in a Member State until a decision on his asylum application has been made at first instance, and
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               given the Explanation (OJ 2007 C 303, p. 17) that the limitations which may legitimately be imposed on the rights in Article 6 of the Charter may not exceed those permitted by the ECHR in the wording of Article 5(1)(f), and the interpretation by the European Court of Human Rights of the latter provision in, inter alia, the judgment of 22 September 2015, Nabil and Others v Hungary, 62116/12, that the detention of an asylum-seeker is contrary to the aforementioned Article 5(1)(f) if such detention was not imposed with a view to deportation?
            
         
      (1)  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 (OJ 2013, L 180, p. 96).
   
      (2)  Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (OJ 2007, C 303, p. 1).
   
      (3)  Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (OJ 2013, L 180, p. 60).