Reports of Cases JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 25 July 2018 * (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Common policy on asylum and subsidiary protection — Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection — Directive 2011/95/EU — Article 12 — Exclusion from refugee status — Persons registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — Existence of a ‘first country of asylum’, for a refugee from Palestine, in the UNRWA area of operations — Common procedures for granting international protection — Directive 2013/32/EU — Article 46 — Right to an effective remedy — Full and ex nunc examination — Scope of the powers of the court of first instance — Examination by the courts of international protection needs — Examination of grounds of inadmissibility) In Case C-585/16, REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Administrativen sad Sofia-grad (Sofia Administrative Court, Bulgaria), made by decision of 8 November 2016, received at the Court on 18 November 2016, in the proceedings Serin Alheto v Zamestnik-predsedatel na Darzhavna agentsia za bezhantsite, THE COURT (Grand Chamber), Composed of K. Lenaerts, President, M. Ilešič (Rapporteur), L. Bay Larsen, T. von Danwitz, A. Rosas, J. Malenovský and E. Levits, Presidents of Chambers, E. Juhász, A. Borg Barthet, F. Biltgen, K. Jürimäe, C. Lycourgos and M. Vilaras, Judges, Advocate General: P. Mengozzi, Registrar: M. Aleksejev, Administrator, having regard to the written procedure and further to the hearing on 23 January 2018, after considering the observations submitted on behalf of – Ms Alheto, by P. Zhelev, V. Nilsen, G. Voynov, G. Toshev, M. Andreeva and I. Savova, advokati, – the Czech Government, by M. Smolek and J. Vláčil, acting as Agents, – the Hungarian Government, by G. Tornyai, Z. Fehér, G. Koós and M. Tátrai, acting as Agents, * Language of the case: Bulgarian. EN ECLI:EU:C:2018:584 1