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Document 62009CN0031

Case C-31/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Bíróság (Hungary) lodged on 26 January 2009 — Bolbol Nawras v Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal

OJ C 82, 4.4.2009, p. 15–15 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

4.4.2009   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 82/15

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Bíróság (Hungary) lodged on 26 January 2009 — Bolbol Nawras v Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal

(Case C-31/09)

(2009/C 82/28)

Language of the case: Hungarian

Referring court

Fővárosi Bíróság

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Bolbol Nawras

Defendant: Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal

Questions referred

For the purposes of Article 12(1)(a) of Council Directive 2004/83/EC (1)

1.

Must someone be regarded as a person receiving the protection and assistance of a United Nations agency merely by virtue of the fact he is entitled to assistance or protection or is it also necessary for him actually to avail himself of that protection or assistance?

2.

Does cessation of the agency's protection or assistance mean residence outside the agency's area of operations, cessation of the agency and cessation of the possibility of receiving the agency's protection or assistance or, possibly, an objective obstacle such that the person entitled thereto is unable to avail himself of that protection or assistance?

3.

Do the benefits of this directive mean recognition as a refugee, or either of the two forms of protection covered by the directive (recognition as a refugee and the grant of subsidiary protection), according to the choice made by the Member State, or, possibly, neither automatically but merely inclusion in the scope ratione personae of the directive?

(1)  Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 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 and the content of the protection granted (OJ 2004 L 304, p. 12).

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