44As a preliminary point, it should be recalled that documents from the UNHCR are among the instruments likely to enable the Member States to assess the functioning of the asylum system in the Member State indicated as responsible by the criteria in Chapter III of the Regulation, and therefore to evaluate the risks to which the asylum seeker would actually be exposed were he to be transferred to that Member State (see, to that effect, N.S. and Others, paragraphs 90 and 91). Those documents are particularly relevant in that assessment in the light of the role conferred on the UNHCR by the Geneva Convention, in consistency with which the rules of European Union law dealing with asylum must be interpreted (see, to that effect, N.S. and Others, paragraph 75, and Case C-364/11 Abed El Karem El Kott and Others [2012] ECR, paragraph 43).
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