Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/685

10.2.2025

(Case C-406/22,

Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky, Odbor azylové a migrační politiky)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Asylum policy - International protection - Directive 2013/32/EU - Common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection - Articles 36 and 37 - Concept of ‘safe country of origin’ - Designation - Annex I - Criteria - Article 46 - Right to an effective remedy - Examination by the court of the designation of a third country as a safe country of origin)

(C/2025/685)

Language of the case: Czech

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: CV

Defendant: Ministerstvo vnitra České republiky, Odbor azylové a migrační politiky

Operative part of the judgment

Article 37 of Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection, read in conjunction with Annex I thereto, must be interpreted as meaning that a third country does not cease to fulfil the criteria enabling it to be designated as a safe country of origin on the sole ground that it invokes the right to derogate from the obligations laid down by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950, pursuant to Article 15 of that convention; however, the competent authorities of the Member State which made such designation must assess whether the conditions for the implementation of that right are such as to call that designation into question.

Article 37 of Directive 2013/32 must be interpreted as precluding a third country from being designated as a safe country of origin where certain parts of its territory do not satisfy the material conditions for such designation, set out in Annex I to that directive.

Article 46(3) of Directive 2013/32, read in the light of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as meaning that, where an action is brought before a court or tribunal against a decision rejecting an application for international protection, examined in the context of the special scheme applicable to applications lodged by applicants from third countries designated, in accordance with Article 37 of that directive, as safe countries of origin, that court or tribunal must, as part of the full and ex nunc examination required by Article 46(3) of that directive, raise, on the basis of the information in the file and the information brought to its attention during the proceedings before it, a failure to have regard to the material conditions for such designation, set out in Annex I to that directive, even if that failure is not expressly relied on in support of that action.

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/685/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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Language of the case: Czech

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