Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 07/17/2014

Subject: The Court affirmed that, although Article 78 TFEU provides that the common policy on asylum must be in accordance with the Geneva Convention and Article 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union makes clear that the right to asylum is to be guaranteed with due respect for that convention and the Protocol relating to the status of refugees of 31 January 1967, Member States have retained certain powers falling within that field, in particular relating to the subject-matter covered by Article 31 of that convention, concerning refugees unlawfully in the country of refuge. Therefore, the Court concluded that it does not have jurisdiction to interpret directly Article 31, or any other article, of that convention.

Parties: Mohammad Ferooz Qurbani

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 18 Right to asylum - Refugees

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