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‘return’ means the process of a third-country national going back — whether in voluntary compliance with an obligation to return, or enforced — to: his or her country of origin, or a country of transit in accordance with Community or bilateral readmission agreements or other arrangements, or another third country, to which the third-country national concerned voluntarily decides to return and in which he or she will be accepted;

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