Judgment_paragraph 27 · P.I. v Migracijos departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos vidaus reikalų ministerijos (C-280/21)

27That interpretation is borne out by the Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status and Guidelines on International Protection under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR), 1979, reissued and updated in February 2019, HCR/1P/4/ENG/REV.4), to which reference must be made having regard to the fact that they are particularly relevant in the light of the role conferred on the HCR by the Geneva Convention (see, to that effect, judgment of 23 May 2019, Bilali, C‑720/17, EU:C:2019:448, paragraph 57 and the case-law cited). Those guidelines also provide a broad definition of the concept of ‘political opinions’ in that the concept can include any opinion or issue involving the State, the Government, society or a policy.