CHAPTER VIICONTENT OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION

Article 21Protection from refoulement

1.

Member States shall respect the principle of non-refoulement in accordance with their international obligations.

2.

Where not prohibited by the international obligations mentioned in paragraph 1, Member States may refoule a refugee, whether formally recognised or not, when:

(a)

there are reasonable grounds for considering him or her as a danger to the security of the Member State in which he or she is present; or

(b)

he or she, having been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that Member State.

3.

Member States may revoke, end or refuse to renew or to grant the residence permit of (or to) a refugee to whom paragraph 2 applies.