{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-32/article-36",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2013/32",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-32",
  "path": "article/36",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "The concept of safe country of origin",
  "text": "1. A third country designated as a safe country of origin in accordance with this Directive may, after an individual examination of the application, be considered as a safe country of origin for a particular applicant only if:\n(a) he or she has the nationality of that country; or\n(b) he or she is a stateless person and was formerly habitually resident in that country,\nand he or she has not submitted any serious grounds for considering the country not to be a safe country of origin in his or her particular circumstances and in terms of his or her qualification as a beneficiary of international protection in accordance with Directive 2011/95/EU.\n2. Member States shall lay down in national legislation further rules and modalities for the application of the safe country of origin concept.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2013/32/article/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:53.456697+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}