ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The updated report was written by Spyros Koulocheris, Attorney at Law, Head of Legal Research at the Greek Council for Refugees, assisted by Matthias Verheyen, social scientist, and Myrsini Paspati, sociologist. The recent report has been further updated by the information received from the Greek Asylum Service The report was edited by ECRE. The information in this report is up-to-date as of 31 July 2014. The AIDA project The AIDA project is jointly coordinated by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), Forum Réfugiés-Cosi, Irish Refugee Council and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. It aims to provide up-to date information on asylum practice in 14 EU Member States (AT, BE, BG, DE, FR, GR, HU, IE, IT, MT, NL, PL, SE, UK) which is easily accessible to the media, researchers, advocates, legal practitioners and the general public through the dedicated website www.asylumineurope.org. Furthermore the project seeks to promote the implementation and transposition of EU asylum legislation reflecting the highest possible standards of protection in line with international refugee and human rights law and based on best practice. This report is part of the AIDA project (Asylum Information Database) funded by the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM). Additional research for the second update of this report was developed with financial support from the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme of the European Union (FRAME Project). The contents of the report are the sole responsibility of the Greek Refugee Council (GRC) and ECRE and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission. 2