154In that regard, with regard to the ‘serious reasons’ for applying the ‘exclusion’ provisions set out in Articles 12 and 17 of Directive 2011/95, reasons which in accordance with Article 5(7) of each of Decisions 2015/1523 and 2015/1601 allowed a Member State to refuse to relocate an applicant for international protection, it follows from the case-law of the Court that the competent authority of the Member State concerned cannot rely on the exclusion clause provided for in Article 12(2)(b) of Directive 2011/95 and Article 17(1)(b) of that directive, which concern the commission by the applicant for international protection of a ‘serious crime’, until it has undertaken, for each individual case, an assessment of the specific facts within its knowledge. That is done with a view to determining whether there are serious reasons for taking the view that the acts committed by the person in question, who otherwise satisfies the qualifying conditions for the status applied for, come within the scope of that particular ground for exclusion, the assessment of the seriousness of the crime in question requiring a full investigation into all the circumstances of the individual case concerned (judgment of 13 September 2018, Ahmed, C‑369/17, EU:C:2018:713, points 48, 55 and 58).
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