Proposal for a Regulation establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member States Responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person (Recast), COM (2008) 820 Final

This Briefing Note offers an assessment of the following aspects of the Proposal: extension of the scope of application for subsidiarity protection; the question of effective judicial protection; detention; the extension of the term 'family member'; the discretionary clauses; the new mechanism of temporary suspension of transfers.