Judgment_paragraph 66 · WS v Intervyuirasht organ na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite pri Ministerskia savet (C-621/21)

66In accordance with Article 9(3) of Directive 2011/95, read in conjunction with Article 6(c) and Article 7(1) of that directive, and in the light of recital 29 of that directive, recognition of refugee status presupposes that a link be established either between the reasons for persecution set out in Article 10(1) of that directive and the acts of persecution within the meaning of Article 9(1) and (2), or between the reasons for persecution and the absence of protection by the ‘actors of protection’, against such acts of persecution perpetrated by ‘non-State actors’.