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Council Regulation (EC) No 343/2003 of 18 February 2003 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national · European Union

The Member State responsible for examining an application for asylum under this Regulation shall be obliged to: take charge, under the conditions laid down in Articles 17 to 19, of an asylum seeker who has lodged an application in a different Member State; complete the examination of the application for asylum; take back, under the conditions laid down in Article 20, an applicant whose application is under examination and who is in the territory of another Member State without permission; take back, under the conditions laid down in Article 20, an applicant who has withdrawn the application under examination and made an application in another Member State; take back, under the conditions laid down in Article 20, a third-country national whose application it has rejected and who is in the territory of another Member State without permission.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-15 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.