CHAPTER VAPPEALS PROCEDURES

Article 39The right to an effective remedy

1

Member States shall ensure that applicants for asylum have the right to an effective remedy before a court or tribunal, against the following:

a

a decision taken on their application for asylum, including a decision:

  1. (i)

    to consider an application inadmissible pursuant to Article 25(2),

  2. (ii)

    taken at the border or in the transit zones of a Member State as described in Article 35(1),

  3. (iii)

    not to conduct an examination pursuant to Article 36;

b

a refusal to re-open the examination of an application after its discontinuation pursuant to Articles 19 and 20;

c

a decision not to further examine the subsequent application pursuant to Articles 32 and 34;

d

a decision refusing entry within the framework of the procedures provided for under Article 35(2);

e

a decision to withdraw of refugee status pursuant to Article 38.

2

Member States shall provide for time-limits and other necessary rules for the applicant to exercise his/her right to an effective remedy pursuant to paragraph 1.

3

Member States shall, where appropriate, provide for rules in accordance with their international obligations dealing with:

a

the question of whether the remedy pursuant to paragraph 1 shall have the effect of allowing applicants to remain in the Member State concerned pending its outcome;

b

the possibility of legal remedy or protective measures where the remedy pursuant to paragraph 1 does not have the effect of allowing applicants to remain in the Member State concerned pending its outcome. Member States may also provide for an ex officio remedy; and

c

the grounds for challenging a decision under Article 25(2)(c) in accordance with the methodology applied under Article 27(2)(b) and (c).

4

Member States may lay down time-limits for the court or tribunal pursuant to paragraph 1 to examine the decision of the determining authority.

5

Where an applicant has been granted a status which offers the same rights and benefits under national and Community law as the refugee status by virtue of Directive 2004/83/EC, the applicant may be considered as having an effective remedy where a court or tribunal decides that the remedy pursuant to paragraph 1 is inadmissible or unlikely to succeed on the basis of insufficient interest on the part of the applicant in maintaining the proceedings.

6

Member States may also lay down in national legislation the conditions under which it can be assumed that an applicant has implicitly withdrawn or abandoned his/her remedy pursuant to paragraph 1, together with the rules on the procedure to be followed.