Chapter I, Article 3, Point (2) · Regulation (EU) 2026/2280

Contents

(1) ‘third-country national’ means any person who is not a cit…
(2) ‘illegal stay’ means the presence, on the territory of a M…
(3) ‘country of return’ means one of the following:
(4) ‘return decision’ means an administrative or judicial act…
(5) ‘return’ means the actions by which an illegally staying t…
(6) ‘decision ordering removal’ means an administrative or jud…
(7) ‘removal’ means the enforcement of a return decision or a…
(8) ‘voluntary return’ means the departure from the territory…
(9) ‘absconding’ means the action by which a third-country nat…
(10) ‘entry ban’ means an administrative or judicial act or dec…
(11) ‘return operation’ means an operation organised or coordin…

(2)‘illegal stay’ means the presence, on the territory of a Member State, of a third-country national who does not fulfil, or who no longer fulfils, the entry conditions for third-country nationals as set out in Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399, or the conditions for stay or residence in that Member State, or, in the case of a Member State not bound by that Regulation, the conditions for entry, stay or residence laid down in equivalent national law;