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1.Without prejudice to Article 24(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1240, the applicant shall be presented with the following questions:
(a)‘Over the past 10 years, have you been subject to one or more return decisions issued by an EU Member State or any third country?’ and
(b)‘Over the past 10 years, have you been subject to one or more decisions requiring you to leave the territory of an EU Member State or of a third country listed below?’
The applicant shall be requested to answer the questions referred to in points (a) and (b) by selecting an answer from a predetermined list comprised of the fields ‘yes’ and ‘no’.For the purpose of point (a), the applicant shall be informed that the word ‘return decision’ shall be understood in accordance with Article 3(4) of Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliamentnote.For the purpose of point (b), the applicant shall be informed that the word ‘decision requiring to leave the territory’ shall be understood to mean any administrative or judicial decision or act, different from a return decision, requiring the applicant to leave the territory of an EU Member State or of any third country.
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