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Council Directive 2004/83/EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted · European Union

A third country national or a stateless person shall cease to be a refugee, if he or she: has voluntarily re-availed himself or herself of the protection of the country of nationality; or having lost his or her nationality, has voluntarily re-acquired it; or has acquired a new nationality, and enjoys the protection of the country of his or her new nationality; or has voluntarily re-established himself or herself in the country which he or she left or outside which he or she remained owing to fear of persecution; or can no longer, because the circumstances in connection with which he or she has been recognised as a refugee have ceased to exist, continue to refuse to avail himself or herself of the protection of the country of nationality; being a stateless person with no nationality, he or she is able, because the circumstances in connection with which he or she has been recognised as a refugee have ceased to exist, to return to the country of former habitual residence.

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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.