Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 1 March 2022 – Association Avocats pour la défense des droits des étrangers (ADDE) and Others v Ministre de l’Intérieur
(Case C-143/22)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: Association Avocats pour la défense des droits des étrangers (ADDE), Association nationale d’assistance aux frontières pour les étrangers (ANAFE), Association de recherche, de communication et d’action pour l’accès aux traitements (ARCAT), Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (CIMADE), Fédération des associations de solidarité avec tou-te-s les immigré-e-s (FASTI), Groupe d’information et de soutien des immigré.e.s (GISTI), Ligue des droits de l’homme (LDH), Le Paria, Syndicat des avocats de France (SAF), SOS – Hépatites Fédération
Defendant: Ministre de l’Intérieur
Question referred
In the event of the temporary reintroduction of border controls at internal borders, under the conditions laid down in Chapter II of Title III of Regulation (EU) 2016/399, 1 can foreign nationals arriving directly from the territory of a State party to the Schengen Convention signed on 19 June 1990 be refused entry, when entry checks are carried out at that border, on the basis of Article 14 of that regulation, without Directive 2008/115/EC 2 being applicable?
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1 Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders (Schengen Borders Code) (OJ 2016 L 77, p. 1).
1 Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (OJ 2008 L 348, p. 98).