CJEU: Request for preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Directive 2011/95

Date: 
Friday, January 24, 2020

The German Federal Administrative Court recently requested a preliminary ruling in the case of C-768/19 to clarify, inter alia, which point in the asylum application process is used to determine whether the beneficiary of protection is considered to be a minor within the meaning of Article 2(j) Directive 2011/95.

The CJEU is invited to consider whether an applicant for asylum is to be considered a minor. Such a point may be the time when: (a) the beneficiary of protection was granted subsidiary protection status; (b) the applicant for asylum made his asylum application; (c) the applicant for asylum entered the host Member State; (d) the beneficiary of protection made his asylum application.


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Keywords: 
Child Specific Considerations