Title	Mostafa Abed El Karem El Kott and Others v. Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal
Publisher	European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union
Publication Date	19 December 2012
Country	Occupied Palestinian Territory
Topics	Citizenship law | Palestinian | Refugees | Statelessness
Citation / Document Symbol	C-364/11
Related Document	UNHCR Observations in the case C-364/11 El Kott and Others regarding the interpretation of Article 1D of the 1951 Convention and Article 12(1)(a) of the Qualification Directive
Cite as	Mostafa Abed El Karem El Kott and Others v. Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal, C-364/11, European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union, 19 December 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/50d2d7b42.html [accessed 23 May 2013]
Comments	(Directive 2004/83/EC – Minimum standards for determining who qualifies for refugee status or subsidiary protection status – Stateless persons of Palestinian origin who have in fact availed themselves of assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – The right of those stateless persons to recognition as refugees on the basis of the second sentence of Article 12(1)(a) of Directive 2004/83 – Conditions under which applicable – Cessation of UNRWA assistance ‘for any reason’ – Evidence – Consequences for the persons concerned seeking refugee status – Persons ‘ipso facto entitled to the benefits of [the] Directive’ – Automatic recognition as a ‘refugee’ within the meaning of Article 2(c) of Directive 2004/83 and the granting of refugee status in accordance with Article 13 thereof)
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