Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 11 February 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État – Belgium) – T.H.C. v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides

(Case C-755/19) ¹

(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court – Asylum policy – Common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection – Directive 2013/32/EU – Article 46 —Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – Article 47 – Right to an effective remedy – Action brought against the rejection of a subsequent application for international protection as inadmissible – Time limit for bringing proceedings – Detention)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Conseil d’État

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: T.H.C.

Defendant: Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides

Operative part of the order

Article 46 of Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection, read in the light of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which subjects an appeal against a decision to reject a subsequent application for international protection to a time limit of five days, including public holidays, where the applicant concerned is held in detention, provided, first, that the principle of equivalence is observed and, second, that genuine access for the applicants held in detention to the procedural safeguards granted by EU law to applicants for international protection is ensured within that period.

It is for the national court to ascertain whether the national legislation at issue in the main proceedings meets those requirements.

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¹ OJ C 423, 16.12.2019.