Judgment_paragraph 41 · Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides v Mostafa Lounani (C-573/14)

41In that regard, it must be noted that it is clear from recitals 3, 16 and 17 of Directive 2004/83 that the Geneva Convention constitutes the cornerstone of the international legal regime for the protection of refugees and that the provisions of that directive for determining who qualifies for refugee status and the content of that status were adopted to guide the competent authorities of the Member States in the application of that convention on the basis of common concepts and criteria (judgment of 2 December 2014, A and Others, C‑148/13 to C‑150/13, EU:C:2014:2406, paragraph 45).