Judgment_paragraph 85 · M and Others v Commissaire général aux réfugiés et aux apatrides (C-391/16, C-77/17, C-78/17)

85For its part, Article 2(e) of Directive 2011/95 defines ‘refugee status’ as ‘the recognition by a Member State of a third-country national or a stateless person as a refugee’. As can be seen from recital 21 of that directive, that recognition is declaratory and not constitutive of being a refugee.