57It is, therefore, for the competent national authorities and courts to conduct, on an individual basis, an assessment of all the relevant factors in order to ascertain whether the departure from the UNRWA area of operations of applicants for refugee status under the second sentence of Article 12(1)(a) of Directive 2004/83 may be justified, in accordance with the case-law referred to in paragraph 50 above, by reasons beyond their control and independent of their volition, which prevented them from receiving UNRWA’s protection or assistance; that assessment must also ascertain whether those applicants are currently prevented from receiving that protection or assistance due to the allegedly deteriorating situation in the area of operations concerned for reasons beyond their control and independent of their volition.
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