48It follows that, notwithstanding Article 3 thereof, Directive 2011/95 does not prohibit a Member State from granting national protection which includes rights enabling persons who do not have refugee status or subsidiary protection status to remain in its territory, it being understood that the grant of such protection falls outside the scope of that directive (see, to that effect, judgments of 9 November 2010, B and D, C‑57/09 and C‑101/09, EU:C:2010:661, paragraphs 116 to 118, and of 23 May 2019, Bilali, C‑720/17, EU:C:2019:448, paragraph 61). Accordingly, it is thus open to a Member State to grant, solely by virtue of its national law, a right to stay on humanitarian grounds to third-country nationals who are in a state of extreme material poverty in its territory.
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