ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012
potential. Details on methodology are extensively cited in the relevant Annex.
1.1 Structure of Asylum and Migration Policy5.
In the recent history of migration into Greece, institutions involved in
respective policy-making and policy implementation experience a constant
reshuffling and an inherent restructure process, as national and community
policy priorities are being specified, with a particular impact on the extent of
their decision-making ambit. These changes may be attributed to the volatility
of migratory reality, to the emergence of new institutions as a response to new
demands in the context of implementing national, European or international
commitments.
In this context the main (focal) state and non state institutions and actors
involved in migration and asylum policy-making and its realization are6:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for short-term residence visas
(Schengen) and long-term residence visas (national), as well as the
transit visas, the conclusion of relevant international and bilateral
agreements/treaties, the informal coordination of ministries involved in
the policy against trafficking in human beings.
Ministry of Interior, responsible for the migration policy and the social
integration of third country nationals via the Secretariat General for
Population and Social Cohesion; for defining the legislative framework
and the procedures regarding the issuance of specific categories of
residence permits and for granting citizenship. It is also responsible for
allocating the funds received from the European Fund for the Integration
of Third Country Nationals.
Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Welfare, responsible for
determining the maximum number of third country to enter Greece for
work purposes annually and for monitoring the implementation of Labor
Law (through the Body of Labor Inspectors). By virtue of L. 4052/2012,
since 1st July 2012, the Ministry is also responsible, via the transferred
Secretariat General for Welfare and the National Center for Social
Solidarity (EKKA), for the accommodation of asylum seekers, including
centers for the accommodation of unaccompanied minors, and the
European Refugee Fund.
Ministry of Health, responsible for medical and nursing healthcare for the
underprivileged (feeble) and the non-insured persons, including specific
cases of irregular migrants via first level healthcare units.
Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights responsible for the
legislative framework against trafficking in human beings, for the legal
persecution of traffickers and smugglers; for legally tackling racist
5
http://emn.intrasoftintl.com/Downloads/prepareShowFiles.do?entryTitle=0.%20Institutional%20Charts%20on%20Asylum
%20and%20Migration).
6
Ministries are quoted following the order of Ministries as established by virtue of the Υ4/21.6.2012
Decision of the Prime Minister (GG Β΄2027/2012).
11
اختر الفقرة المستهدفة3
الاتصال بفقرة
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
أضف إلى جدول المحتويات