ANNUAL POLICY REPORT 2012 2010-2012 201 1 5 Employment 9 197 930 1 Others 1 292 929 14 Family Reunification 21 646 092 1 Education 1 233 255 33 23 Total 368 206 Source: Ministry of Interior/ updated data Category 2010 201 2 889 * 1 356 7 400 802 10 447 * Part of the sharp decrease in the number of first permits issued in 2012 for employment reasons, is due to new legislation that allows seasonal or temporary workers coming from third countries to enter and stay in Greece on the basis only of a national visa (i.e. residence permit is not required). The abovementioned Law 4018/2011, also established, within the Decentralized Administrations of the country, the «one-stop services» tasked with receiving the applications of third countries’ nationals for the initial issuance or the renewal of their residence permits, with issuing the residence permits falling within their competence and handing over the relevant decisions and permits to the TCNs. Therefore, with the new legislative framework, the responsibility for the receipt of these applications is transferred from the municipalities to the offices for Foreigners and Immigration of the Decentralized Administrations, in the territorial jurisdiction of which, they fall. The following are also included in the functions that will be executed in the "One Stop Services": receiving employers’ requests to invite foreign workforce, providing information regarding the procedures, required documents and conditions postulated by applicable law for the issuance or renewal of a residence permit and the foreign workforce invitation procedure. The operation of "one stop services" is linked, in part, to labour matching in faster terms, since it contributes to simplifying and speeding up the initial issuance or renewal of residence permits to TCNs, and the gradual implementation by the Greek authorities of the provisions of Regulation 380/2008/EC for issuing residence permits to TCNs in the form of a separate document with the inclusion of biometric data. Within the year 2012, 30 "One Stop Services" operated in Greece, including the Migration Policy Directorate of the General Secretariat of Population and Social Cohesion of the Ministry of Interior (which acts as a “one stop service” since 2005, the year of enactment of Law 3386/2005). During the next year the remaining "One Stop Services" are expected to be launched, in accordance with Article 2 of Law 4018/11, in order to reach a total of 62 reception points in the Greek territory (with the 4