Scope
Article 3
1. This Directive shall apply to all applications for asylum made in the territory, including at the border or in the transit zones of the Member States, and to the withdrawal of refugee status. 2. This Directive shall not apply in cases of requests for diplomatic or territorial asylum submitted to representations of Member States. 3. Where Member States employ or introduce a procedure in which asylum applications are examined both as applications on the basis of the Geneva Convention and as applications for other kinds of international protection given under the circumstances defined by Article 15 of Directive 2004/83/EC, they shall apply this Directive throughout their procedure. 4. Moreover, Member States may decide to apply this Directive in procedures for deciding on applications for any kind of international protection.