53Therefore, although the second subparagraph of Article 23(1) of Directive 2013/32 allows the Member States, particularly where national security so requires, not to grant the person concerned direct access to all of his or her file, that provision cannot be interpreted, without infringing the principle of effectiveness, the right to sound administration and the right to an effective remedy, as allowing the competent authorities to place that person in a situation where neither he or she nor his or her representative would be able to gain effective knowledge, where applicable in the context of a specific procedure designed to protect national security, of the substance of the decisive elements contained in that file.
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