Article 70 Asylum Code states that the Asylum Service, in cooperation with the authorities operating in detention facilities and at Greek border entry points and/or civil society organisations, shall ensure the provision of information on the possibility to submit an application for international protection. Interpretation services shall also be provided to the extent that this is necessary for the facilitation of access to the asylum procedure. Organisations and persons providing advice and counselling, shall have effective access, unless there are reasons related to national security, or public order or reasons that are determined by the administrative management of the border crossing point concerned and impose the limitation of such access. Such limitations must not result in access being rendered impossible. Where no decision on an asylum application lodged at border entry points is taken within 28 days, the applicant is allowed entry into the Greek territory for their application to be examined under the Regular Procedure.561 During this 28-day period, applicants remain in de facto detention (see Grounds for Detention). In practice, the above-mentioned procedure is only applied in airport transit zones, and in particular to people arriving at Athens International Airport – usually through a transit flight – who do not have a valid entry authorisation and apply for asylum at the airport. With a Police Circular of 18 June 2016 communicated to all police authorities, instructions were provided inter alia as to the procedure to be followed when a third-country national remaining in a detention centre or a RIC wishes to apply for international protection, which includes persons subject to the border procedure.562 MoMA has not publicly released specific data regarding the number of asylum applications processed under the border procedure at airports for the year 2025. 4.2. Personal interview Indicators: Border Procedure: Personal Interview Same as regular procedure 1. Is a personal interview of the asylum applicant in most cases conducted in practice in the border procedure? Yes No ❖ If so, are questions limited to nationality, identity, travel route? Yes No ❖ If so, are interpreters available in practice, for interviews? Yes No 2. Are interviews conducted through video conferencing? Frequently Rarely Never The personal interview at the border is conducted according to the same rules as those described under the regular procedure. Where the application has been lodged at the Athens International Airport transit zone, the asylum applicants are transferred in most cases to the AAU of Amygdaleza for the full registration of their asylum application and for the interview. GCR is not aware of any interview through videoconferencing in the transit zones to date. 4.3. Appeal Indicators: Border Procedure: Appeal Same as regular procedure 561 562 Article 95(2) Asylum Code. Police Circular No 1604/16/1195968/18-6-2016, available in Greek at: https://tinyurl.com/ye85mfbc. 122