Section 1: Jurisdiction and powers

The Cour nationale du droit d’asile, whose nature, tasks and organisation are defined in particular in Title III of Book I, rules on appeals against decisions taken by the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) pursuant to Articles L. 511-1 to L. 511-8, L. 512-1 to L. 512-3, L. 513-1 to L. 513-5, L. 531-1 to L. 531-35,…

In the event of an appeal against a decision by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, the Cour nationale du droit d’asile (National Court for the Right of Asylum) rules, as a full court, on the applicant’s right to asylum protection in the light of the factual circumstances of which it is aware at the time it makes its ruling.

The Cour nationale du droit d’asile may only annul a decision of the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides and refer the examination of the asylum application back to it when it considers that the Office took this decision without carrying out an individual examination of the application or dispensing, outside the cases provided for by law, with a personal interview with the applicant and that it is…

The Cour nationale du droit d’asile examines applications submitted to it by refugees covered by one of the measures provided for in articles 31, 32 and 33 of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 relating to the status of refugees and issues an opinion on whether these measures should be maintained or cancelled. In this case, the appeal has suspensive effect. In this case, the right to appeal must…