Judgment_paragraph 81 · M and Others v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides (C-391/16, C-77/17, C-78/17)

81In addition, it is apparent from recitals 4, 23 and 24 of Directive 2011/95 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 thereof 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 in order to recognise applicants for asylum as having refugee status for the purposes of Article 1 of that convention (see, to that effect, judgments of 31 January 2017, Lounani, C‑573/14, EU:C:2017:71, paragraph 41, and of 13 September 2018, Ahmed, C‑369/17, EU:C:2018:713, paragraph 40 and the case-law cited).