JUDGMENT OF 13. 1. 2021 – CASE C-507/19 BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND (REFUGEE STATUS OF A STATELESS PERSON OF PALESTINIAN ORIGIN) after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 1 October 2020, gives the following Judgment 1 This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 12(1)(a) of 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 (OJ 2011 L 337, p. 9). 2 The request has been made in proceedings between the Bundesrepublik Deutschland and XT concerning the rejection of XT’s application for international protection in order to obtain refugee status. Legal context International law The Geneva Convention 3 The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, signed in Geneva on 28 July 1951 (United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 189, p. 150, No 2545 (1954)), entered into force on 22 April 1954. It was supplemented and amended by the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, concluded in New York on 31 January 1967, which entered into force on 4 October 1967 (‘the Geneva Convention’). 4 Article 1(D) of the Geneva Convention provides: ‘This Convention shall not apply to persons who are at present receiving from organs or agencies of the United Nations other than the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees protection or assistance. When such protection or assistance has ceased for any reason, without the position of such persons being definitively settled in accordance with the relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, these persons shall ipso facto be entitled to the benefits of this Convention.’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) 5 United Nations General Assembly resolution No 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949, concerning assistance to Palestine refugees, established the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Its task is to serve the well-being and human development of Palestine refugees 6 According to points VII.C and VII.E of UNRWA’s Consolidated Eligibility and Registration Instructions, UNRWA’s area of operations (‘area of operations’) covers five fields, namely the Gaza Strip, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. 2 ECLI:EU:C:2021:3