Judgment_paragraph 71 · Nigyar Rauf Kaza Ahmedbekova and Rauf Emin Ogla Ahmedbekov v Zamestnik-predsedatel na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite (C-652/16)

71The Court has previously held that the clarification contained in Article 3, according to which all more favourable standards must be compatible with Directive 2011/95, means that those standards must not compromise the general scheme or objectives of that directive. In particular, standards which are intended to grant refugee or subsidiary protection status to third-country nationals or stateless persons in situations which have no connection with the rationale of international protection are prohibited (see, in that regard, judgment of 18 December 2014, M’Bodj, C‑542/13, EU:C:2014:2452, paragraphs 42 and 44). This thus applies, inter alia, to standards which grant such status to persons falling within the scope of a ground for exclusion laid down in Article 12 of that directive (judgment of 9 November 2010, B and D, C‑57/09 and C‑101/09, EU:C:2010:661, paragraph 115).