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Commission v Hungary (Accueil des demandeurs de protection internationale) C-808/18
Hungary has failed to fulfil its obligations: – in providing that applications for international protection from third-country nationals or stateless persons who, arriving from Serbia, wish to access, in its territory, the international protection procedure, may be made only in the transit zones of Röszke and Tompa, while adopting a consistent and generalised administrative practice drastically limiting the number of applicants authorised to enter those transit zones daily; – in establishing a system of systematic detention of applicants for international protection in the transit zones of Röszke and Tompa, without observing the guarantees provided for in Article 24(3) and Article 43 of Directive 2013/32 and Articles 8, 9 and 11 of Directive 2013/33; – in allowing the removal of all third-country nationals staying illegally in its territory, with the exception of those of them who are suspected of having committed a criminal offence, without observing the procedures and safeguards laid down in Article 5, Article 6(1), Article 12(1) and Article 13(1) of Directive 2008/115; – in making the exercise by applicants for international protection who fall within the scope of Article 46(5) of Directive 2013/32 of their right to remain in its territory subject to conditions contrary to EU law. 17 December 2020 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Access to procedures - Illegal entry - Immigration Detention | Countries: Hungary |
Written observations by the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the case of
A.H. v National Directorate-General/or Aliens Policing (11.K.706.750/2020)
before the Budapest Capital Regional Court
25 November 2020 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae |
Accelerated, prioritised and fast-track asylum procedures Legal frameworks and practice in Europe
May 2017 | Publisher: European Council on Refugees and Exiles | Document type: Regional Reports |
2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Hungary
3 March 2017 | Publisher: United States Department of State | Document type: Annual Reports |
The length of asylum procedures in Europe
October 2016 | Publisher: European Council on Refugees and Exiles | Document type: Thematic Reports |
Case Law Fact Sheet: Prevention of Dublin Transfers to Hungary
January 2016 | Publisher: European Council on Refugees and Exiles | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries |
Description of the Hungarian asylum system
18 May 2015 | Publisher: European Union: European Asylum Support Office (EASO) | Document type: Country Reports |
Information Note on Asylum-seekers in Detention and in Dublin Procedures in Hungary
May 2014 | Publisher: Hungarian Helsinki Committee | Document type: Country Reports |
Synthesis Report – Identification of victims of trafficking in human beings in international protection and forced return procedures
March 2014 | Publisher: European Migration Network (EMN) | Document type: Thematic Reports |
Actors of Protection and the Application of the Internal Protection Alternative, National Report - Hungary
2014 | Publisher: European Council on Refugees and Exiles | Document type: Country Reports |