Table of actors
Actor
Description
Reception and Identification
Service (RIS)
The RIS oversees the implementation of
identification procedures (including registration,
verification of identity and nationality, medical
screening and a vulnerability assessment) and
the provision of reception conditions to
applicants for international protection. It
operates six RICs and CCACs, including the
CCAC in Samos, as well as 25 reception facilities
across Greece for adult asylum seekers.
Greek Asylum Service (GAS)
The GAS is responsible for the asylum procedure,
in particular for the registration and personal
interview.
Hellenic Police
The Police carries out the identity and citizenship
verification process for new arrivals of third
country nationals in the police screening
interviews.
Frontex
Frontex is the European Border and Coast Guard
Agency that supports EU Member States and
Schengen-associated
countries
in
the
management of the EU’s external borders. In the
Samos CCAC, Frontex conducts police interviews
for newly arrived asylum seekers
European Union Agency for
Asylum (EUAA)
The EUAA is an agency of the European Union
mandated with supporting Member States in
applying the package of EU laws that governs
asylum and international protection.In Greece, it
supports the activities of the RIS and the GAS,
including with deploying caseworkers to Samos.
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