Michková, Karolina Author aut (orcid)0009-0006-0841-2669 Dřínovská, Natálie Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5874-0285 Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-12-20 eng

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Last month, the ECJ responded to a preliminary reference of the Regional Court in Brno concerning Czechia’s so-called return procedure. The ECJ ruled that a third country national cannot be subject to a return decision if they applied for international protection and a first-instance decision on that application has not yet been delivered. Curiously, the ECJ thereby answered a question it had not actually been asked, while contradicting the conclusion of the Grand Chamber of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court (“SAC”), rendered shortly before. While the ECJ’s ruling will nonetheless improve some of the problems that have inhered within Czechia’s approach to international protection and return procedures, its failure to answer the referred question constitutes a missed opportunity to facilitate a productive dialogue with referring courts in an area of law where preliminary references have been exceedingly rare. CC BY-SA 4.0 Michková, Karolina Asylum Proceedings Czech Republic Czechia migrant rights preliminary reference return procedures 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/between-return-and-protection/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/56c59c1abf78687a 231220 10.59704/56c59c1abf78687a Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)