PRACTICAL GUIDE ON NATIONALITY List of abbreviations Abbreviation Definition APD (recast) asylum procedures directive — 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) APR asylum procedure regulation — Regulation (EU) 2024/1348 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 establishing a common procedure for international protection in the Union and repealing Directive 2013/32/EU COI country of origin information EUAA European Union Agency for Asylum EU European Union EU+ countries Member States of the European Union and the Schengen associated countries Member State(s) Member State(s) of the European Union QD (recast) qualification directive — Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted (recast) QR qualification regulation — Regulation (EU) 2024/1347 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted, amending Council Directive 2003/109/EC and repealing Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council Refugee Convention The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (referred to in EU asylum legislation and by the Court of Justice of the European Union as ‘the Geneva Convention’) 7