59In the fifth place, for the purpose of assessing an application for international protection based on membership of a particular social group, it falls to the Member State concerned to ascertain whether the person relying on that reason for persecution has ‘a well-founded fear’ of being persecuted, in his or her country of origin, by reason of that membership, within the meaning of Article 2(d) of Directive 2011/95.
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