#2026-452France Updates Asylum Application Review Rules
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This decree updates France’s asylum procedure rules to align them with the EU’s 2024 asylum procedure regulation. It replaces several older references to EU directives and French code provisions with references to the new EU regulation, and updates the terminology used for repeat asylum applications.
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Key Changes
- Aligns French asylum procedure rules with EU Regulation 2024/1348.
- Defines which authority decides whether an asylum application is treated as implicitly withdrawn.
- Sets a 10-day deadline to challenge an implicit withdrawal decision before the administrative court.
Obligations
What this law requires
For cases under points b, c, e and f of Article 41(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1348, the prefect, or in Paris the police prefect, must assess whether an asylum application is to be treated as implicitly withdrawn.
For other cases under Article 41(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1348, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons must assess whether an asylum application is to be treated as implicitly withdrawn.
Appeals before the administrative court against a decision finding implicit withdrawal of an asylum application must be filed within ten days from notification of that decision by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons.