(b)1. t The Ö requested ÕMember State called upon to take back the applicant shall be obliged to make the necessary checks and Ö shall give a decision on Õreply to the request Ö to take back the person concerned Õ addressed to it as quickly as possible and under no circumstances exceeding a period ofÖ in any event no later than Õone month from the referral Ö date on which the request was received Õ .

2. 1 Any Member State, even where it is not responsible under the criteria set out in this Regulation, Ö The Member State in which an application for international protection is made and which is carrying out the process of determining the Member State responsible, or the Member State responsible, Õmay, ðat any time, request another Member State to take charge of an applicant in order to ï bring together family members, as well as other dependent relatives, on humanitarian grounds based in particular on family or cultural considerations, ð even where this latter Member State is not responsible under the criteria laid down in Articles 8 t ...[+++]o 12 of this Regulation ï .

1. In the absence of information programmes for one or more of the actions referred to in Article 2(c) presented by the organisations referred to in Article 6 each interested Member State shall draw up on the basis of guidelines established by the Commission its specification and select through a public call for tenders the implementing body for the programme it undertakes to part-finance.

While most Member States correctly interpret this provision as an obligation to proceed to the full assessment of the protection needs of the asylum applicant, to the knowledge of the Commission, one Member State does not carry out, under certain circumstances, such an assessment when taking back asylum seekers from other Member States.

While most Member States correctly interpret this provision as an obligation to proceed to the full assessment of the protection needs of the asylum applicant, to the knowledge of the Commission, one Member State does not carry out, under certain circumstances, such an assessment when taking back asylum seekers from other Member States.

Using the sample taken, the authorised agent approves the batch on the basis of the criteria set in the specification (cf. the characteristics of “Ail blanc de Lomagne” on page 5 of the specifications):’