Section 6: Judgement

The panel will rule on the appeal, on the basis of the documents in the file and the observations presented orally by the parties, under the conditions laid down by Articles R. 532-42 and R. 532-43.When appeals are lodged with it against decisions by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons granting or refusing asylum, it will rule pursuant to Article L. 511-1 and, in the…

When the chairman of the bench decides to order a supplemental investigation, the parties are invited to submit a brief or additional documents for the sole purpose of this supplemental investigation. The same bench shall deliberate on the expiry of the time period given to the parties to produce these documents or, where applicable, to reply to them. This period may not exceed one month from the date of the…

The decisions of the National Court of Asylum are reasoned.The decision states that the hearing was public, unless the provisions of Article L. 532-11 were applied. In the latter case, it is stated that the hearing took place or continued without the public being present.It contains the surname and first names of the applicant, a statement of the purpose of the application and the legal and factual circumstances put forward…

The decisions of the National Court of Asylum are read in open court. Their meaning is displayed at the seat of the court on the day they are read.

The Secretary General of the Cour nationale du droit d’asile will notify the applicant of the court’s decision by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt and will inform the applicant in a language that he or she understands or can reasonably be expected to understand of the positive or negative nature of the decision taken. It will also notify the Director General of the French Office for the Protection of…

When the competent prefect or, in Paris, the police prefect, so requests, the Cour nationale du droit d’asile shall send it a copy of the notice of receipt referred to in Article R. 532-54.

When the Minister responsible for immigration so requests, the Cour nationale du droit d’asile will forward its rejection decisions to him or her.

The date of notification of the decision of the Cour nationale du droit d’asile which appears in the information system of the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides, and which is communicated to the competent prefect and the director general of the Office français de l’immigration et de l’intégration by means of computer processing, is authentic until proven otherwise.

When the president of the National Court of Asylum finds that the original of a decision is vitiated by a material error or omission that is not likely to have had an influence on the judgment of the case, he may, by order made within one month of notification to the parties, make the corrections that reason dictates.The notification of the rectifying order reopens, where applicable, the time limit for…