Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 12/19/2013

Subject: The Court affirmed that Regulation (EC) No 810/2009, establishing a Community Code on Visas, must be interpreted as meaning that the competent authorities of a Member State cannot refuse, following the examination of an application for a uniform visa, to issue such a visa to an applicant unless one of the grounds for refusal of a visa listed in those provisions can be applied to that applicant. Those authorities have a wide discretion in the examination of that application so far as concerns the conditions for the application of those provisions and the assessment of the relevant facts. According to the Court, the obligation on the competent authorities of a Member State to issue a uniform visa is subject to the condition that there is no reasonable doubt that the applicant intends to leave the territory of the Member States before the expiry of the visa applied for, in the light of the general situation in the applicant’s country of residence and his individual characteristics, determined in the light of information provided by the applicant.

Parties: Rahmanian Koushkaki

Classification: General theme

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