25A person who has been summoned to appear before an investigating judge, before whom criminal proceedings initiated for criminal offences which that person is alleged to have committed have been brought, falls within the concept of a ‘suspect’, within the meaning of Article 2(1) of Directive 2013/48. Moreover, the wording of that provision, in particular the words ‘are made aware by the competent authorities of a Member State, by official notification or otherwise’, indicates that, for the purposes of determining whether Directive 2013/48 is applicable, information received from the competent authorities of a Member State by the person concerned is sufficient, in whatever form that information is communicated.
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