Title	Mostafa Abed El Karem El Kott and Others v. Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal
Publisher	European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union
Publication Date	19 December 2012
Country	State of Palestine
Topics	Palestinian | Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures | Refugees | Statelessness
Citation / Document Symbol	C-364/11
Other Languages / Attachments	Greek
Related Document(s)	UNHCR written intervention before the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of El Kott and Others v. Hungary
Cite as	Mostafa Abed El Karem El Kott and Others v. Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal, C-364/11, European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union, 19 December 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/cases,ECJ,50d2d7b42.html [accessed 24 June 2017]
Comments	(Directive 2004/83/EC – Minimum standards for determining who qualifies for refugee status or subsidiary protection status – Stateless persons of Palestinian origin who have in fact availed themselves of assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The right of those stateless persons to recognition as refugees on the basis of the second sentence of Article 12(1)(a) of Directive 2004/83 – Conditions under which applicable – Cessation of UNRWA assistance ‘for any reason’ – Evidence – Consequences for the persons concerned seeking refugee status – Persons ‘ipso facto entitled to the benefits of [the] Directive’ – Automatic recognition as a ‘refugee’ within the meaning of Article 2(c) of Directive 2004/83 and the granting of refugee status in accordance with Article 13 thereof)
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