66It follows from the foregoing, as the Advocate General observed in essence in points 102 to 105, 107 and 108 of his Opinion, that where a court or tribunal rules exhaustively on an appeal by an applicant for international protection and makes, on that occasion, an up-to-date examination of the ‘international protection needs’ of that applicant on the basis of all the relevant elements of fact and law, following which it reaches the conclusion that the applicant must be granted the status of refugee or person eligible for subsidiary protection status, in accordance with the criteria laid down in Directive 2011/95, for the reasons that he or she relies on in support of his or her application and that court or tribunal annuls the decision of the administrative or quasi-judicial body rejecting that application and refers the case file back to that body, the latter is, subject to matters of fact or law arising that objectively require a new up-to-date assessment, bound by the decision of that court or tribunal and the grounds that support it. Therefore, in the context of such a referral back, that body no longer has a discretionary power as to the decision to grant or refuse the protection sought in the light of the same grounds as those that were submitted to that court or tribunal, otherwise Article 46(3) of Directive 2013/32, read in conjunction with Article 47 of the Charter, as well as Articles 13 and 18 of Directive 2011/95, would be deprived of all their practical effect.
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