34 | PROTECTING STATELESS PERSONS FROM ARBITRARY DETENTION IN BULGARIA ENDNOTES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mr. T. is “accommodated” at the immigration detention centre in Bousmantsi, Sofia Case C-357/09 PPU, Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union, 30 November 2009 Auad v Bulgaria [2011] Application no 46390/10 (ECtHR) Ibid., para 133 Kim v Russia [2014] Application no 44260/13 (ECtHR) para 54 European Network on Statelessness, Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention: A Regional Toolkit for Practitioners (2015). Further information is available on the European Network on Statelessness website, available at www.statelessness.eu [accessed 26 May 2016] European Network on Statelessness, Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in Malta (2015); Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in the Netherlands (2105); Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in Poland (2015). These reports at available at http://www.statelessness.eu/protecting-stateless-personsfrom-detention Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying thirdcountry nationals Directive 2013/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection Draft Law on a Law Amending and Supplementing the Law on Foreign Nationals in the Republic of Bulgaria, 602-0123/28.04.2016 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted 10 December 1948, entered into force 23 March 1976) 999 UNTS 302, art 15 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Both conventions were signed by Bulgaria on 8 October 1968 and ratified on 21 September 1970 Bulgaria ratified this Protocol on 26 March 1992 Bulgaria ratified this Convention on 16 December 1986 This Optional Protocol was ratified on 1 June 2011 Bulgaria ratified this Convention on 8 August 1966 Bulgaria ratified this Convention on ratified on 3 June 1991 Bulgaria ratified this Convention and it entered into force on 7 September 1992 Bulgaria ratified this Convention on 03 May 1994 CPT, Public Statement Concerning Bulgaria, Strasbourg, 26 March 2015, available at http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/bgr/2015-17inf-eng.pdf (accessed 14 June 2016) In Bulgarian the provisions reads: “Международните договори, ратифицирани по конституционен ред, обнародвани и влезли в сила за Република България, са част от вътрешното право на страната. Те имат предимство пред тези норми на вътрешното законодателство, които им противоречат.” More information about the reservations made by Bulgaria can be found at the UN Treaty Collection website: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetailsII.aspx?src=TREATY&mtd sg_no=V-3&chapter=5&Temp=mtdsg2&clang=_en Bulgaria ratified this Convention and entered into force in Bulgaria in 2006 European Network on Statelessness, Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention. A Regional Toolkit for Practitioners, December 2015, page 7, http://www.statelessness.eu/resources/protectingstateless-persons-arbitrary-detention-regional-toolkit-practitioners UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons (2014), para 23