Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 20 October 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal — Ireland) — Evelyn Danqua v Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland, Attorney General
(Case C-429/15) 1
(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2004/83/EC — Minimum standards for granting refugee status or subsidiary protection status — National procedural rule laying down, for the submission of an application for subsidiary protection, a period of 15 working days from notification of the rejection of the application for asylum — Procedural autonomy of the Member States — Principle of equivalence — Principle of effectiveness — Proper conduct of the procedure for examining the application for subsidiary protection — Proper conduct of the return procedure — Not compatible)
Language of the case: English
Referring court
Court of Appeal
Parties to the main proceedings
Appellant: Evelyn Danqua
Respondents: Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland, Attorney General
Operative part of the judgment
The principle of effectiveness must be interpreted as precluding a national procedural rule, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which requires an application for subsidiary protection status to be made within a period of 15 working days of notification, by the competent authority, that an applicant whose asylum application has been rejected may make an application for subsidiary protection.
____________1 OJ C 320, 28.9.2015.