ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 behaviors; for the supervision of unaccompanied minors via respective Prosecutors.  Ministry of Public Order and Citizen's Protection, responsible for border control and the coordination of involved state authorities; combat against irregular migration (entry and residence) and human trafficking and smuggling of illegal migrants; returns and deportations; the National Coordinating Center for the Surveillance and Control of Borders; unaccompanied minors; fight against racist violence; asylum procedures and reception conditions (recently established Asylum Service, First Reception Service and Appeals’ Authority). It is also the national responsible authority for allocating the funding coming from the External Borders Fund and the European Return Fund, through the Agency for Managing European and Development Projects. (L. 3938/2011).  Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Aegean (Hellenic Coastguard) responsible for the fight against irregular migration by sea and for the cooperation with FRONTEX during the respective operations through the National Sea Border Center.  Interministerial Committee for Monitoring Migration Policy (art. 3, L. 3386/2005), convened twice per year, working on migration issues, setting out guidelines and proposing institutional and technical measures.  Decentralized Administrations, responsible for checking the submitted documents, deciding on the applications of third country nationals for residence permit and the issuance of the residence permit. Municipalities were responsible for receiving and forwarding the application for the residence permit and the delivery of the issued residence permit to the third country nationals; however these competences have been undertaken by the Decentralised Administrations and, in particular, by the ‘one-stop-shop’ services which gradually established within these administrations, throughout the country.  The Οmbudsman and, in particular, the Ombudsman for the Migrant, the Refugee and the Ethnic Greek (operating under the Ombudsman's Cycle for Human Rights), as the institutional actor for the protection of migrants', refugees' and ethnic Greeks' rights, is charged with investigating individual cases, as well as identifying structural problems related to foreigners' legal status in Greece and submitting relevant annual reports to the Hellenic Parliament.  The International Organization for Migration, implements voluntary return programmes for third country nationals illegally staying in Greece, cofunded by the EU and the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection.  The National Committee for Human Rights, a consultative institution of the State on human rights issues, addresses recommendations to authorities responsible for migration and asylum.  The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Office in Greece), which cooperates with competent authorities, NGOs and other agents for the protection of refugees in Greece and is involved in various stages of the 12