Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (Belgium) lodged on 25 November 2021 — XXX v État belge, represented by the Secrétaire d’État à l’Asile et la Migration

(Case C-711/21)

(2022/C 64/32)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d’État

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: XXX

Defendant: État belge, represented by the Secrétaire d’État à l’Asile et la Migration

Questions referred

Must Articles 4, 7 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Articles 5, [6(6)] and 13 of Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals, (1) read in the light of the judgment [of 19 June 2018, Gnandi (C-181/16, EU:C:2018:465)], be interpreted as meaning that a court hearing an appeal against a return decision adopted pursuant to a decision refusing to grant international protection, when assessing the legality of the return decision, may take account of changes in circumstances that may have a significant bearing on the assessment of the situation under Article 5 cited above, only where those changes occurred prior to the disposal of the international protection proceedings by the Council for asylum and immigration proceedings?

Must the circumstances referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals have arisen at a time when the foreign national was legally resident or allowed to remain?

(1) OJ 2008 L 348, p. 98.