- applicant
means a third-country national or a stateless person who has made an application for international protection in respect of which a final decision has not yet been taken;
- application for international protection
means a request made by a third-country national or a stateless person for protection from a Member State, who can be understood to seek refugee status or subsidiary protection status;
- beneficiary of international protection
means a person who has been granted refugee status or subsidiary protection status;
- country of origin
means the country or countries of nationality or, for stateless persons, of former habitual residence;
- determining authority
means a quasi-judicial or administrative body in a Member State which is responsible for examining applications for international protection and is competent to take decisions at the administrative stage of the procedure;
- family members
means, in so far as the family already existed before the applicant arrived on the territory of the Member States, the following members of the family of the beneficiary of international protection who are present on the territory of the same Member State in relation to the application for international protection:
- guardian
means a natural person or an organisation, including a public body, designated by the competent authorities to assist, represent and act on behalf of an unaccompanied minor, as applicable, in order to ensure that the unaccompanied minor can benefit from the rights and comply with the obligations under this Regulation, while safeguarding his or her best interests and general well-being.
- international protection
means refugee status or subsidiary protection status;
- minor
means a third-country national or stateless person below the age of 18 years;
- person eligible for subsidiary protection
means a third-country national or a stateless person who does not qualify as a refugee but in respect of whom substantial grounds have been shown for believing that that person, if returned to his or her country of origin or, in the case of a stateless person, to his or her country of former habitual residence, would face a real risk of suffering serious harm as defined in Article 15, and to whom Article 17(1) and (2) does not apply, and is unable or, owing to such risk, unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country;
- refugee
means a third-country national who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group, is outside the country of nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country, or a stateless person, who, being outside of the country of former habitual residence for the same reasons as mentioned, is unable or, owing to such fear, unwilling to return to it, and to whom Article 12 does not apply;
- refugee status
means the recognition by a Member State of a third-country national or a stateless person as a refugee;
- residence permit
means an authorisation issued by the authorities of a Member State, in a uniform format as laid down by Regulation (EC) No 1030/2002, which allows a third-country national or stateless person to reside legally on its territory;
- social assistance
means benefits granted with the objective of ensuring that the basic needs of those who lack sufficient resources are met;
- social security
means the branches of social security set out in Article 3(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- subsidiary protection status
means the recognition by a Member State of a third-country national or a stateless person as a person eligible for subsidiary protection;
- unaccompanied minor
means a minor who arrives on the territory of the Member States unaccompanied by an adult responsible for him or her whether by the law or practice of the Member State concerned, and for as long as that minor is not effectively taken into the care of such an adult, including a minor who is left unaccompanied after he or she has entered the territory of the Member States;
- withdrawal of international protection
means a decision by a determining authority or a competent court or tribunal to revoke or end, including by refusing to renew, international protection;