Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 31 January 2017

Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides v Mostafa Lounani

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État, Belgium

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Asylum — Directive 2004/83/EC — Minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees — Article 12(2)(c) and Article 12(3) — Exclusion from being a refugee — Concept of ‘acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations’ — Scope — Member of the leadership of a terrorist organisation — Criminal conviction of participation in the activities of a terrorist group — Individual assessment

Case C-573/14


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
17/03/2017 Lounani
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2017:71
31/01/2017 Lounani
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2017:71
31/01/2017 Lounani
Application (OJ)
23/01/2015 Lounani
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2016:380
31/05/2016 Lounani
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.01 Border checks, asylum and immigration
      4.06.01.03 Asylum policy
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.01 Border checks, asylum and immigration
      4.06.01.03 Asylum policy
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.01 Border checks, asylum and immigration
      4.06.01.03 Asylum policy


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 11/12/2014

Date of the Opinion

  • 31/05/2016

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

31/01/2017


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 104 from 03.04.2017, p.12

Application: OJ C 46 from 09.02.2015, p.36

Name of the parties

Lounani

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Berlin, Dominique: Terrorisme et demande du statut de réfugié : quand le droit rejoint le bon sens, La Semaine Juridique - édition générale 2017 nº 7-8 p.312-313 (FR)
  2. Lehofer, Hans Peter: Asylantrag kann abgelehnt werden, wenn Antragsteller an Aktivitäten einer terroristischen Vereinigung beteiligt war, Österreichische Juristenzeitung 2017 p.282-283 (DE)
  3. Mariotti, C.: Status di rifugiato e partecipazione alle attività di un gruppo terroristico, Giurisprudenza italiana 2017 p.579 (IT)
  4. Gazin, Fabienne: Terrorisme et statut de réfugié, Europe 2017 Mars nº 03 p.18-19 (FR)
  5. Rodrigues, P.R.: Uitsluiting vanwege handelingen in strijd met doelstellingen en beginselen van Verenigde Naties mag plaatsvinden bij een strafrechtelijke veroordeling voor het, als leidinggevende, deelnemen aan een terroristische organisatie., Administratiefrechtelijke beslissingen ; Rechtspraak bestuursrecht 2017 nº 203 (NL)
  6. Nigro, Raffaella: La sentenza della Corte di giustizia dell'Unione Europea nel caso Lounani e le controverse motivazioni giuridiche al fine di escludere lo status di rifugiato per presunti terroristi, Rivista di diritto internazionale 2017 p.565-575 (IT)
  7. Chatelet, Pauline: Statut de réfugié et lutte contre le terrorisme, Revue des affaires européennes 2017 p.107-118 (FR)
  8. Kosińska, Anna Magdalena: The Problem of Exclusion from Refugee Status on the Grounds of Being Guilty of Terrorist Acts in the CJEU Case-law, European Journal of Migration and Law 2017 Vol. 19 p.425–446 (EN)
  9. Takis, Athanasios: Armenopoulos 2017 p.483-484 (EL)
  10. Tzortzi, Virginia: Elliniki Epitheorisi Evropaïkou Dikaiou 2017 p.139-146 (EL)
  11. Carlier, Jean-Yves ; Leboeuf, Luc: Droit européen des migrations, Journal de droit européen 2018 p.95-110 (FR)
  12. Labayle, Henri: XIV. Espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice - Cour de justice, gde ch., 31 janvier 2017, Commissariat général aux réfugiés c/ Lounani, aff. C-573/14, ECLI:EU:C:2017:71, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2017. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2018, p. 600-602 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Conseil d'État - Belgium

Subject-matter

  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - asylum policy

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Charte des Nations unies (26/06/1945), articles 1 et 2

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling
  • Reference for a preliminary ruling : case not proceeding to judgment

Formation of the Court

grande chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Rosas

Advocate General

Sharpston

Language(s) of the Case

  • French

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English