Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 12/18/2014

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2004/83/EC, on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection, is to be interpreted as not requiring a Member State to grant the social welfare and health care benefits provided for in those measures to a third country national who has been granted leave to reside in the territory of that Member State under national legislation, which allows a foreign national who suffers from an illness occasioning a real risk to his life or physical integrity or a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment to reside in that Member State, where there is no appropriate treatment in that foreign national’s country of origin or in the third country in which he resided previously, unless such a foreign national is intentionally deprived of health care in that country.

Parties: Mohamed M’Bodj

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 19 Expulsion - Solidarity - Art. 35 Preventive health care

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