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To ensure that the law is enforced, understood and uniformly applied in all Member States, a judicial institution is essential. That institution is the Court of Justice of the European Communities. It is composed of three courts: the Court of Justice (created in 1952), the Court of First Instance (created in 1988) and the Civil Service Tribunal (created in 2004). The Court of Justice of the European Communities, together with the national courts, thus constitutes the European Community’s judiciary. The Court’s main task is to interpret Community law uniformly and to rule on its validity. It answers questions referred to it by the national courts, which play a vital role, as they apply Community law at local level. The judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Communities — together with the treaties, regulations, directives and decisions — make up Community law.  Website: curia.europa.eu/en/
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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

Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston: Mossa Ouhrami

18 May 2017 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 2008 Returns Directive (EU) | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Illegal entry - Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants | Countries: Algeria - Netherlands

Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston: K v. Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie

4 May 2017 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Legal Instrument: 2013 Recast Reception Conditions Directive (EU) | Topic(s): Illegal entry - Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants - Immigration Detention | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Netherlands

Sélina Affum v Préfet du Pas-de-Calais, Procureur général de la cour d'appel de Douai

7 June 2016 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Illegal entry - Orderly return | Countries: France - Ghana

Subdelegación del Gobierno en Gipuzkoa — Extranjería v Samir Zaizoune

23 April 2015 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Illegal entry - Orderly return - Regional instruments | Countries: Spain

Mohammad Ferooz Qurbani

17 July 2014 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Criminal justice - False documents - Illegal entry - Trafficking in persons | Countries: Afghanistan - Germany

Mehmet Arslan contre Policie CR, Krajské reditelství policie Ústeckého kraje, odbor cizinecké policie (Conclusions de l'Avocat Général M. Melchior Wathelet)

31 January 2013 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Illegal entry - Immigration Detention - Regional instruments | Countries: Czech Republic - Türkiye

Alexandre Achughbabian c. Préfet du Val-de-Marne

6 December 2011 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Illegal entry - Immigration Detention | Countries: Armenia - France

El Dridi

28 April 2011 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Illegal entry - Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants - Immigration Detention | Countries: Italy

Saïd Shamilovich Kadzoev v. Direktsia ‘Migratsia' pri Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Administrativen Sad Sofia-grad, Bulgaria lodged on 7 September 2009.

30 November 2009 | Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Asylum-seekers - Deportation / Forcible return - Illegal entry - Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants - Immigration Detention - Right to liberty and security | Countries: Bulgaria - Russian Federation

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