5 migrants and asylum seekers in the First Reception Centre and the Fylakio Detention Centre. Information acquired through those visits and interviews is complemented with information obtained through further email exchanges with the mentioned stakeholders and desk research on the situation in Evros. The visit was organised in close cooperation with the Greek Council for Refugees, an ECRE member organisation. During the visit to the Fylakio First Reception Centre and Detention Centre, the ECRE delegation was accompanied by a lawyer of the Greek Council for Refugees who provides legal assistance to third country nationals in need of international protection detained in the Fylakio Detention Centre. This report is divided into five sections. Following the introduction in Section One, Section two provides general background information with regard to the general situation and the evolution in the number of apprehensions of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Evros region and the efforts undertaken at national and EU level, including through the Frontex Operation Poseidon Land to strengthen the border controls at the land border with Turkey. Sections three and four discuss the role and organisation of the First Reception Service as well as the role of the Regional Asylum Offices in the Evros Region more specifically. Section five provides an analysis of the general set up and structure of the First Reception Centre in Fylakio and of the procedure of identification and referral, the respective roles of the First Reception Service and the Regional Asylum Service and the conditions in the centre. Starting from a brief analysis of the legal framework governing the First Reception Service, this section raises a number of concerns with regard to the registration of asylum applications, the lack of sufficient procedural guarantees for individuals kept in the centre to challenge the deprivation of their liberty in the centre and the prison-like conditions in the centre. A sixth and final section of the report deals with the role of the Detention Centre in Fylakio prior to the transfer of migrants apprehended at the border or elsewhere in the region to the First Reception Centre and as a pre-removal centre following identification and referral procedures at the First Reception Centre. It focuses in particular on the conditions in the Fylakio Detention Centre. Sections five and six include a number of specific recommendations to the Greek authorities.