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Timestamp: 2018-09-19 01:58:02
Document Index: 118671709

Matched Legal Cases: ['CJEU ', '§ 20', '§ 33', 'CJEU ', '§ 5', 'CJEU ']

In October 2016 a Christian Syrian family from Aleppo arrived to the Belgian Embassy in Beirut and applied for an EU Schengen visa with limited territorial validity for humanitarian purposes (further as humanitarian visa) so they could arrive legally in Belgium and apply for asylum there. In Aleppo the family lived in fear that they would be persecuted for their religious beliefs, and testified that one family member had already been abducted and tortured. In addition, they said it was impossible for them to register as refugees in neighboring countries, due to the closure of the Lebanese-Syrian border. 1
Upravit na: In contrast, the EU has seen a rather steady decline of visa with limited territorial validity – while in 2012 close to 300,000 were issued, in 2015 the number dropped to 109,500. 11
CJEU case no. C-638/16 PPU, § 20. ↩
Case C-638/16 PPU. ↩
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). ↩
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, http://bit.ly/1LjeYKz (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
The 1951 Refugee Convention, The UNHCR, http://bit.ly/2ah31bH (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
2) Does the existence of links between the applicant and the Member State to which the visa application has been made (for example, family connections, host families, guarantors and sponsors) affect the answer to that question? ↩
§ 33 of the ruling ↩
Global Resettlement Needs 2017, UNHCR, http://bit.ly/1YoTO3e (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
Final Act of the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons, (D): „The Conference, considering that many persons still leave their country of origin for reasons of persecution and are entitled to special protection on account of their position, recommends that Governments continue to receive refugees in their territories and that they act in concert in a true spirit of international cooperation in order that these refugees may find asylum and the possibility of resettlement. ↩
As reported in this article, Brazil has welcomed more than 8000 Syrian refugees under humanitarian admission scheme in 2013-2016. Fernando Brigidi de Mello, “Brazil has open arms to welcome refugees”, Brazil Talk, January 18, 2016, http://bit.ly/2nB9w14 (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
Towards and EU humanitarian visa scheme?, Briefing, European Parliament, Policy Department for Citizen’s Rights and Constitutional Affairs, June 2016, http://bit.ly/2p1WR7p (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
Humanitarian Visa: Option or Obligation?, European Parliament, Directorate – General for Internal Policies, Policy Department, Citizen’s Rights and Constitutional Affairs, Study for the LIBE Committee, 2014, http://bit.ly/18STww7 (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
The study finds “that the obligation under Article 25 (1) to issue LTV visas on, inter alia, humanitarian grounds or because of international refugee and human rights obligations is not sufficiently ensured through, or enshrined in, formal procedures”. ↩
See inter alia European Parliament resolution on the situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic EU approach to migration, April 12, 2016, http://bit.ly/2nBIpDp (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
General Court of the EU, Press Release no. 19/17, Luxembourg, February 28, 2017, http://bit.ly/2lWZPrr (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
The main role of CJEU is to interpret the EU law to make sure it is applied in the same way in all Member States. Each MS nominates 1 judge per country. assist the Court. They are responsible for presenting, with complete impartiality and independence, an ‘opinion’ in the cases assigned to them. More on the functioning of the Court see http://bit.ly/2p3OsNU (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
Opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on February 7, 2017, http://bit.ly/2ow3bDA (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
Ibid., § 5 and 6:
[6] Although the European Union is going through a difficult period, I do not share that fear. It is, on the contrary, as in the main proceedings, the refusal to recognise a legal access route to the right to international protection on the territory of the Member States ‐ which unfortunately often forces nationals of third countries seeking such protection to join, risking their lives in doing so, the current flow of illegal immigrants to EU’s borders — which seems to me to be particularly worrying, in the light, inter alia, of the humanitarian values and respect for human rights on which European construction is founded. Need it be recalled that, as Articles 2 and 3 of the EU Treaty state respectively, the Union ‘is founded on the values of respect for human dignity … and respect for human rights’ and its ‘aim is to promote … its values’, including in its relations with the wider world? ↩
Peers, Steve, Do potential asylum seekers have the right to Schengen visa?, EU Law Analysis, January 20, 2014, http://bit.ly/2p2avHB (accessed on March 30, 2017), or Spijkerboer, T., Brouwer, E, and Al Tamimi, Y., Advice in Case C-638/16 PPU on prejudicial questions concerning humanitarian visa, published 5 January 2017. ↩
CJEU Ruling: “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 European Union law currently stands, solely within that of national law.” ↩
Theo Francken´s Twitter account, Twitter, March 7, 2017, http://bit.ly/2ovN7BA (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩
UNHCR Data, Europe, Mediterranean, http://bit.ly/2j556O2 (accessed on March 30, 2017). ↩