Judgment in Cases C-490/16 A.S. v Slovenian Republic and C-646/16 Khadija Jafari and Zainab Jafari

The European Court of Justice Judgment gave its judgment in Cases C-490/16 A.S. v Slovenian Republic and C-646/16 Khadija Jafari and Zainab Jafari on the 26 July 2017. The Court stated that Croatia was responsible for examining applications for international protection by persons who crossed its border en masse during the 2015-2016 migration crisis. Those persons must be regarded as having crossed the external border of Croatia irregularly within the meaning of the Dublin III Regulation.

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