- absconding
means the action by which a person concerned does not remain available to the competent administrative or judicial authorities such as by:
- admitted person
means a person whom a Member State has accepted for admission pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2024/1350 or under a national resettlement scheme outside the framework of that Regulation;
- 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;
- applicant for international protection
means an applicant as defined in point (4) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1351 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- application
means a request for protection from a Member State made by a third-country national or a stateless person, who can be understood to be seeking refugee status or subsidiary protection status;
- beneficiary of international protection
means a beneficiary of international protection as defined in point (7) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1351;
- benefitting Member State
means a Member State benefitting from solidarity contributions as set out in Part IV of this Regulation;
- contributing Member State
means a Member State that provides or is obliged to provide solidarity contributions to a benefitting Member State as set out in Part IV of this Regulation;
- diploma or qualification
means a diploma or qualification which is obtained and attested in a Member State after a period of at least one academic year of study on the territory of a Member State in a recognised state or regional programme of education or vocational training at least equivalent to level 2 of the International Standard Classification of Education, operated by an education establishment pursuant to the legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions of that Member State and excluding online training or other forms of distance learning;
- education establishment
means a public or private education or vocational training establishment established in and recognised by a Member State in accordance with its national law or administrative practice on the basis of transparent criteria;
- examination of an application for international protection
means examination of the admissibility or the merits of an application for international protection in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2024/1348 and (EU) 2024/1347, excluding procedures for determining the Member State responsible in accordance with this Regulation;
- family member
means, insofar as the family already existed before the applicant or the family member arrived on the territory of the Member States, the following members of the applicant’s family who are present on the territory of a Member State:
- migratory pressure
means a situation brought about by arrivals by land, sea or air or applications of third-country nationals or stateless persons, that are of such a scale that they create disproportionate obligations on a Member State, taking into account the overall situation in the Union, even on a well-prepared asylum, reception and migration system and require immediate action, in particular solidarity contributions pursuant to Part IV of this Regulation;
- minor
means a third-country national or a stateless person below the age of 18 years;
- reception conditions
means reception conditions as defined in Article 2, point (6), of Directive (EU) 2024/1346;
- relative
means the applicant’s adult aunt or uncle or grandparent who is present in the territory of a Member State, regardless of whether the applicant was born in or out of wedlock or adopted as defined under national law;
- relocation
means the transfer of an applicant or a beneficiary of international protection from the territory of a benefitting Member State to the territory of a contributing Member State;
- representative
means a person or an organisation appointed by the competent bodies in order to assist and represent an unaccompanied minor in procedures provided for in this Regulation with a view to ensuring the best interests of the child and exercising legal capacity for the minor where necessary;
- residence document
means an authorisation issued by the authorities of a Member State authorising a third-country national or a stateless person to stay on its territory, including the documents substantiating the authorisation to remain on the territory under temporary protection arrangements or until the circumstances preventing a removal order from being carried out no longer apply, with the exception of visas and residence authorisations issued during the period required to determine the Member State responsible according to this Regulation or during the examination of an application for international protection or an application for a residence permit;
- risk of absconding
means the existence of specific reasons and circumstances in an individual case, which are based on objective criteria defined by national law, to believe that a person concerned who is subject to procedures set out in this Regulation might abscond;
- search and rescue operations
means operations of search and rescue as referred to in the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue adopted in Hamburg on 27 April 1979;
- significant migratory situation
means a situation different from migratory pressure where the cumulative effect of current and previous annual arrivals of third-country nationals or stateless persons leads a well-prepared asylum, reception and migration system to reach the limits of its capacity;
- solidarity action
means an action, the scope of which is set out in point (b) of Article 56(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1351, funded through financial contributions provided by Member States, as referred to in Article 64(1) of that Regulation.’;
- stateless person
means a person who is not considered to be a national by any State under the operation of its law;
- third-country national
means a third-country national as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1351;
- transfer
means the implementation of a decision taken pursuant to Article 42;
- 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 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;
- visa
means the authorisation or decision of a Member State required for transit or entry for an intended stay in that Member State or in several Member States, including:
- withdrawal of an application for international protection
means either the explicit or implicit withdrawal of an application for international protection in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2024/1347;