ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report was written by Spyros Koulocheris, Attorney at Law, Head of Legal Research at the Greek Council for Refugees, assisted by Phoebe Kouvelas, Attorney-at-Law and Olga Gkotsopoulou, law student. The report was edited by ECRE. The information in this report is up-to-date as of 1 June 2013. 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 and includes the development of a dedicated website which will be launched in the second half of 2013. 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 on the Integration and Migration (EPIM) 2