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P alestinians and the s earch for P

1 Jul 2022

Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted, Article 2 and Chapter VII (‘Content of International. [...] In its judgment of March 2022, the CJEU held that: 1) To properly assess whether UNRWA assistance had ceased for reasons beyond the control of the applicant, the deciding authority of the country of asylum must consider both the situation at the date the applicant departed from UNRWA’s area of operation and the situation at the date of decision. [...] In accordance with the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the Convention should be interpreted “in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose.”125 If the plain language of the Convention were followed, Palestinian refugees whose protection ceased “for any reason” would be able to apply. [...] 127 See El Kott, Paras 49-51; XT, Paras 69-71; and UNHCR, Statement on the Interpretation and Application of Article 1D of the 1951 Convention and Article 12(1)(a) of the EU Qualification Directive Issued in the context of the preliminary ruling reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 3 July 2019 – Federal Republic of Germany v. [...] 128 See also UNHCR, Statement on the Interpretation and Application of Article 1D of the 1951 Convention and Article 12(1) (a) of the EU Qualification Directive Issued in the Context of the Preliminary Ruling Reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union from the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Germany) lodged on 3 July 2019 – Federal Republic of Germany v XT (C-507/19) (18 Aug 2020) .
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