Due to a need to strengthen cooperation with third countries on addressing irregular migration to the Union, Member States should also have the possibility to apply the concept of safe third country on the basis of an agreement or an arrangement, regardless of its formal designation, concluded by the Union or by the Member States with the third country concerned in a manner conducive to legal certainty and transparency, provided that the agreement or arrangement concerned contains provisions requiring the examination of the merits of any requests for effective protection made in that third country by applicants covered by that agreement or arrangement. The examinations by the competent authorities of the third country with which the Union or the Member States have concluded an agreement or arrangement could, solely for the purposes of granting effective protection, include different types of procedures for processing cases, such as simplified, group or prima facie procedures.
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