15.4.2019

Official Journal of the European Union

C 139/32

(Case C-40/19)

(2019/C 139/30)

Language of the case: Hungarian

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: EY

Defendant: Bevándorlási és Menekültügyi Hivatal

Questions referred

1.Can Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 31 of Directive 2013/32/EU (known as the ‘Procedures Directive’) be interpreted, in the light of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as meaning that it is possible for effective judicial protection to be guaranteed in a Member State even if its courts cannot amend decisions given in asylum procedures but may only annul them and order that a new procedure be conducted?

2.Can Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 31 of Directive 2013/32/EU (known as the ‘Procedures Directive’) be interpreted, again in the light of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as meaning that legislation of a Member State which lays down a single mandatory time limit of 60 days in total for judicial proceedings in asylum matters, irrespective of any individual circumstances and without regard to the particular features of the case or any potential difficulties in relation to evidence, is compatible with those provisions?

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 (OJ 2013 L 180, p. 60).

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Language of the case: Hungarian.